Saberes elementares de matemática na Escola Normal Regional Imaculada Conceição de Pelotas – RS (1965-1973)

Abstract

The present work aims to identify the mathematical knowledge that are part of the training of normalists at the Regional Normal School Imaculada Conceição from 1955 to 1971, in Pelotas - Rio Grande do Sul. The Rural Normal Schools were created with the aim of training teachers with knowledge specific to act in agricultural areas and also with the intention of containing the rural exodus. We will present a study about the institution and its peculiarities, with theoretical methodological contributions from Cultural History and using document analysis and interviews, in order to answer the investigative question: What elementary knowledge of mathematics was mobilized from the class notes of teacher Ana Maria Dominguez at the Escola Normal Regional Imaculada Conceição from 1965 to 1973? The different sources that produced the historiographic foundation for this study are official documents such as Decrees and Laws, Rural Education Bulletin, Revista do Ensino of state, periodical newspapers that circulated at the time in Rio Grande do Sul, interviews with former teacher and three alumni, notebooks and class notes. The elementary mathematical knowledge that was part of the normal course that school was aimed at those who provided future teachers with a basis for the knowledge to be taught in the primary course. The knowledge to teach fractions, the fundamental operations of arithmetic, the units of measurement and the problems are present in the material produced by the teacher, which refer to indications of teaching resources to be used, suggestions and methods you should follow. The objectification, drawings and concrete materials used in the classroom by the teacher, contemplated the didactic guidelines of authors Edward Thorndike and Irene Albuquerque.