Senses and meanings given by a group of students to mathematical tasks

• Autor(a) principal: Torisu, Edmilson Minoru
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Zetetiké (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/zetetike/article/view/8650202
• topic: Sense; Meaning; Reasons; Alienation; Sentido; Motivos; Alienação

Are senses and meanings coincidents? Starting from the discussion around this question and some data of aqualitative research, made with a group of ninth's grade student's of a public school of Minas Gerais, theconstructs senses and meaning, defined about the aim of Activity Theory are discussed in the research context.The goal is to demonstrate, for the student's answers, obtained by semi structures interviews, a non-coincidencebetween the social mean and the sense of these participations in mathematics tasks proposed by the researcher, during one semester. This coincidence, that we understand as a break in math class in a micro level, and in the school in general in a macro level, can generate an alienated activity. The results show that the social mean ofmath and school, in general, doesn't match with the personal sense attributed by the students to them. In the end, some possibilities for teaching praxis as auxiliaries in the fabric of a transforming practice imbued with thedesire/duty to enable students to attribute new senses to the school are discussed.