Abu ja'far muhammad ibn musa al-khwarizmi: contribuições da álgebra para o ensino

Abstract

Recognizing that medieval Islamic mathematics has produced several names of firstrate scholars, this research focuses on the well-known work entitled Al-Kitāb almukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wal-muqābala (Book of Restoration and Balancing) like alKhwarizmi Algebra, written by the eminent medieval Islamic sage, Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. Thus, the objective of this research was to know the historical-pedagogical potentialities of al-Khwarizmi's Algebraic Treaty (Algebra de al-Khwarizmi) having as theoretical and methodological support the Objection Theory. This is a qualitative bibliographical and documentary historical research, with some brushstrokes of action research. In the course of the research an instructional material was prepared in the form of e-book that was designed to satisfy the educational product requirement in the Professional Master course. In this research, the ebook plays the role of teaching aids to mathematics teachers who want to become familiar with alKhwarizmi's Algebra. In the presentation of al-Khwarizmi's Algebra to the teachers, we chose to privilege the formal, external and physical aspects of the work, thinking that the familiarity with such aspects of the mentioned work may, in the future, enhance the teachers' deeper immersion. in the historical-mathematical content of the work. Thus we conclude that al-Khwarizmi Algebra is a considerably important treatise for the development of algebra. Moreover, this treatise has great potential for teacher education, not only in mathematical aspects, but also in historical, social and political aspects.