Trabalhando o campo e construindo o conhecimento matemático: uma perspectiva etnomatemática dos trabalhadores rurais

Abstract

This dissertation has in view to contribute for a discussion about the mathematical teaching in the education an institution that works with a tecnic course about agriculture and cattlebreeding under the perspective of ethnomathematics. Starting of the purpose witch we obtain the knowledge from a well-known thing to get a new learning which can be used in another situations. We look for rescue the mathematical understanding of Rio Pomba countryside workers, Minas Gerais state, Brazil in their daily activities. As an important portion of these institutions students come from agricultural habitat, and for this, they are inserted in this context. Then they can to give value the popular knowledge that they has with themselves, understanding better the place where they live and practice their citizenship. We adapted in this research one qualitative boarding as methodological. It was realized a study about a relatively new research line on mathematical education, the ethnomathematics. Afterwards, some works of investigation already made in Brazil are related about the same theme. It was made one appointment with rural workers in their habitat and analyzed their mathematical knowledge s that contains their daily and natural activities the discoveries in the country were utilized tie confirm that mathematical knowledge systems permit the survival and beyond it, they answer important questions of existence for cultural group which we look for value and respect.