Photo pose - click! (or: possibilities of assessment instruments for a math classroom)

Abstract

Assessment practices in classrooms often operate in the logic of the discourse of improvement, development, progress, in a supposed equality of students, which, at the limit, reinforces the colonial project (patriarchal, hierarchical, Eurocentric) of a Mathematics Education. With that, in these writings, to create possibilities, act in the cracks, produce with assessments investigations and with a school that happens, I invent myself in a dialogue with different assessment instruments for/with math classrooms. With the statement “pose for a photo - click!”, in a decolonial attitude, a mixture with photos and a flirtation with the margins of the assessments that take place in schools, I am produced in this essay. Among written tests, tests in phases, test with glue, analysis of written productions and portfolio, some discussions of the characteristics and potential of these assessment instruments are detailed in the direction of sharing ideas and discussions for, who knows, invitations to produce/invent assessments instruments other.