An important point of contention in the philosophy of mathematics concerns the existence of mathematical objects. Platonists believe they exist independently; nominalists, that they are only linguistic constructs; formalists, ...

© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This study relies on a theoretical perspective to provide a model that can be used to observe the educational practice of mathematics teachers. To this end, various ...

Practices within research mathematics can and do serve as models for mathematics education. However, typically such inspirations impose a devastating narrowness in relation to reflections on mathematics. This narrowness I ...

In this paper we present an excerpt of the data obtained by applying a questionnaire to 44 Mathematics teachers who were teaching in the academic year 2013/2014 in Braga (Portugal). The data produced are part of an ...

Nowadays, professors are frequently challenged to develop new teach methods while confronting our complex society. This paper exemplifies how mathematic teachers are dealing with the existing challenges. The goal of this ...

Reflections on the complexity of mathematical objects, and the connection of the components of this complexity, are frequent in many of the theoretical approaches used in the area of Mathematics Education. As a consequence ...

This article aims to discuss processes of transformation and mobilization of knowledge related to the history of Mathematics as a teaching approach for mathematics at the Basic Education level. The core of the discussion ...