An overview of research on Modeling Mathematics: Colombia and Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Villa-Ochoa, Jhony Alexander
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Alencar, Edvonete Souza de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa; por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Educação Matemática (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistasbemsp.com.br/index.php/REMat-SP/article/view/215
• topic: Uses of Modelling; mathematical modelling; research; usos de la modelación; modelación matemática; investigación; usos da modelagem; modelagem matemática; pesquisa

This article presents an overview of Colombian and Brazilian research on Mathematical Modeling in the field of Mathematics Education. Our objective was to identify the use of modeling in the research carried out in the countries. For that, we conducted two searches in data banks; in Colombia the GrupLAC of Colciencias groups were searched and the RECOMEM information was confronted. In Brazil, the Tese da Capes Bank was used. In the case of Colombia, the selection of documents was made taking into account that they were publications in magazines, books or book chapters. In the case of Brazil, for having a state-of-the-art research on the subject until 2015, we used that study and selected the most recent research of 2016 and 2017. We presented the research and with the analysis we set up similarity categories that would allow us to know more about the theoretical, methodological approaches and uses of Mathematical Modeling as a research field. The categories formed were: 1) tool to: a) teach and learn Mathematics, b) develop skills and competencies, c) solve problems with / through Mathematics; d) political, critical, democratic formation; e) establish contextualized and interdisciplinary environments with mathematics; and 2) object of study: a) learning to model and b) Relationship with other approaches and theories c) study of modeling research. In general, we can notice similarities and differences between the productions between both countries, what investigations need to be carried out.