Sobre o conhecimento matemático do professor de matemática

Abstract

This dissertation concerns the nature of mathematical knowledge of middle and high school mathematics teachers. In the beggining, a survey of academic studies suggests that their knowledge contradicts the present conceptions of Mathematics Education. It has gaps that depends on conceptions about Mathematics and/or about the learning of Mathematics, rather than on knowing more mathematics contents. To search a better knowledge of Mathematics for the teachers it was used a theoretical framework based on the idea that the knowledge as a whole can be regarded as a web of meanings a notion that has already been explored in Brazilian researches about education. From this notion it was derived a way of knowing Mathematics that is in harmony with the conceptions of Mathematics Education. This way of knowing includes a great deal of knowledge about Mathematics. In the end, it was considered how this way of knowing can be implemented in the preparation of teachers