Vivências matemáticas: a construção de conhecimentos no cotidiano de um pedreiro

Abstract

This work aims to understand how the mathematical knowledge is built by employees of the construction, in the exercise of its functions in a gantry works. To do this, search questioning the model of knowledge that has been constituted as hegemonic thought long, the model Cartesian/Occidental in order to be a critical eye on him. Guiding up in the understanding of knowledge as construction is happening in the socio-cultural practices, such research seeks to understand how an employee of the construction build their mathematical knowledge in situations of working at the same time that is the person who is. The research is to be related with the prospect Ethnomathematics, since this aspect of mathematics education allows new visions on education and on the math, in an attempt to understand the knowledge as a way that people have to be in the world, ahead of reality which experience. The research seeks to be an qualitative approach, because search understand how the phenomenon is constituted for those that experience, their modes of mean it, the concepts that have it.