doctoralThesis
A criatividade matemática de John Wallis na obra Arithmetica Infinitorum: contribuições para ensino de cálculo diferencial e integral na licenciatura em matemática
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2017-02-24Registro en:
LOPES, Gabriela Lucheze de Oliveira. A criatividade matemática de John Wallis na obra Arithmetica Infinitorum: contribuições para ensino de cálculo diferencial e integral na licenciatura em matemática. 2017. 198f. Tese (Doutorado em Educação) - Centro de Educação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2017.
Autor
Lopes, Gabriela Lucheze de Oliveira
Resumen
The research which arose this doctorate’s thesis had as purpose examining in which ways
John Wallis’ ideas, emerging in Arithmetica Infinitorum, dated 1656, has presented
contributing innovations for the didactic and conceptual guiding of Differential and
Integral Calculus’ curricular components basic notions, in Mathematics Licentiate course.
For that matter, we evaluated the production’s pedagogical potential to subsidize
mathematical concepts’ teaching, mainly integral notions, aiming theim provement of
students’ understanding about these mathematical ideas, which are contemplated in the
Mathematics Teachers training course. Acknowledging that the students need to expand
the number of paths which lead to the development of a Mathematical idea, in this study
we propose to answer the following question: how can the didactic exploration of a
mathematician’s creative exercise contribute to the pedagogical approach for the Calculus
and Analysis teaching, in Mathematics Licentiate course? For that we leaned on the
creativity criteria discussed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, due to considering it substantial
in the thinking cycle explanation regarding the Mathematics creation. We relate to these
principles the processes developed by Advanced Mathematical Thinking, suggested by
Tommy Dreyfus, in order to highlight how these processes attach to creativity notions.
Therefore, we formulated a model to examine the writing Arithmetica Infinitorum pointing
its pedagogical potential to subsidize mathematical concepts’ teaching, based on
aninvestigative character. This way, it was possible to establish a connection proposal
between mathematical knowledge historically developed by different mathematicians and
their conceptual and epistemological potentials, with a possibility of being implemented in
Mathematics teacher’s actions, Mathematics teacher’s trainer, in order to grow expertise
and abilities for a forthcoming actuation of the training teacher.