A Matemática Moderna em Portugal: o que dizem os cadernos escolares dos alunos?

Abstract

This paper analyses some exercise notebooks of students who attended the called “pilot-classes”, meaning classes in which the fi rst pedagogical experiences proposed by the teaching of mathematics modernization movement in Portugal were developed. Such notebooks were used together with the didactical material designed by Sebastião e Silva, to the 6th and 7th years of the liceu’s 3rd cycle.

This work aims, by the use of these materials, to search for historical interpretations of practices that happened in the pilot-classes. It is considered that the analysis of such sources — school notebooks — bring important elements to understanding the Modern Mathematics Movement in Portugal, referred by cultural studies. What do notebooks show related to the incorporation of new teaching contents? What are the performed exercises in this new proposal? What is its emphasis? Which are the most studied contents? These, among others, are some of the guiding questions of the analysis.