The world of life in mathematics: analysis of the textbook from a bakhtinian perpsective
Applied Linguistics. Mathematics. Worldof Life.
This study has been motivated from two following questions: Is the approach of the activities in the LD/M responsive to life and pursues a Mathematics teaching aimed at the citizen formation?
How do the statements in the activities of LD/M consider the content directed to the world of life? Trying to give an account of such questions, mathemtics textbooks selected under PNLD of 2011 and 2014 were analyzed, pursuing to verify how and up to what point the world of life is present in such works. We believe that the teaching of Mathematics, strengthened by a socio-interactionist practice and related to the world of life, fosters great understanding of this science, because by contributing to the interaction, humanization and approximation of mathematics to life, it promotes the acquisition of a better level of interpretation and understanding bringing about the student’s imersion to a better contextualization, taking the student from the viewer role to the role of mathematical knowledge builder. The methodology of this work is based on applied linguistics and on a language in a social context that frames this research as qualitative with socio-historical focus and interpretative profile. In this way, as a methodological course, the following steps were accomplised: the selection of textbooks The Conquest of Mathematics (PNLD, 2011) and Practicing Mathematics, (2014); moreover, a bibliographical study was carried out on the History of Textbook, Mathematics Education in Brazil, Applied Linguistics, Language and the World of Life on a Baktinian perspective. From those studies, categories of analysis which were created took to the general evaluation of works and then, the selected activities were evaluated more specifically searching to identify the world of life.