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Adoption of Mathematical Modelling: what is seen in the research produced by the Mathematical Education community

Abstract

An incentive discourse aimed at adopting Modeling at school affects the research produced by the Mathematics Education Community. Although this discourse is recognized, it is necessary to clarify what the community seeks to express when referring to this adoption. Thus, assuming the phenomenological attitude of research, we ask: what is seen on the adoption of Mathematical Modeling in the literature produced within the scope of Mathematics Education? This interrogation led us to consider 109 researches directed to Modeling, made available in the Catalog of Theses Dissertations of the Commission for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, in Google Academic and in the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. Their analysis revealed that recurrent mentions to the adoption of Modeling are restricted to the favorable aspects, challenges, and procedures necessary to work with it at school, with no initiatives seeking to understand the adoption by focusing on who is the subject able to adopt it, the teacher.

Keywords:
Adoption; Mathematical Modelling; Academic Productions; Phenomenological Perspective; Teacher

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