Repercussions of the National Mathematics Fairs in Curricular Integration: the views of teachers of Technical Education in High School

Abstract

Mathematics Fairs have been held in Brazil for over thirty years. Throughout time, they have become an important space for scientific learning and the boost of experiences. Considering the expansion of the Fairs in the brazilian states, the text in analysis continues the studies on the integration of curricular components of Technical Education for High School level from experiences with Mathematics Fair projects. Thus, we analyzed the repercussions of the National Mathematics Fair on the curricular integration from the points of view of the teachers who oriented projects that were presented in two editions of this event, in the years of 2016 and 2018. We had as a theoretical basis the research studies of Ole Skovsmose, as well as curricular documents and theoretical assumptions that deal with the articulation between basic education and professional training, of the interdisciplinarity concept and research scenarios. We observed with this study that the interdisciplinarity proposed on the Mathematics Fair can contribute to the reconstruction of the scientific knowledge of once, as of the relation between the different curricular components concepts, from the basic education and professional development, besides provoking an observation on the teachers regarding their math classes that intend to professionally develop the student.