Abstract
This paper highlights an analysis in the Conclusion Papers of the Professional Master's Degree Course in Mathematics in National Network, specifically, those that deal with the uses of statistical data, from the concepts of discourse and governmentality of Michel Foucault. With that objective, in the first section of the present paper, we included the numbers as a discursive practice in contemporary society. In the second section, the understanding of statistical knowledge is presented as a governance technology of governance. In the third section, the discourse is dealt as practice. In the fourth section, from the adopted concepts, we analyze the academic productions of the professors/ students of the professional master's degree. In these productions, we noticed that the use of statistical knowledge operate either by producing, or by reproducing the knowledge that positions the subjects in their relationship with numbers, indexes, rates, graphs and tables.
Keywords:
Governance Technology; Statistical Knowledge; Discourse; Practice