THE USE OF HISTORY IN TEACHING MATHEMATICS (a reflection)

Abstract

This article aims to promote an approach to the subject of Mathematics allied to History. The relationship between these two areas of knowledge, apparently placed in distant stanzas, in fact, enable the student to have a more general view of the mathematical issues being worked on in the classroom. The problem is that Mathematics is seen as a science separate from others becomes something that needs to be reviewed. For D'Ambrósio, one of the biggest mistakes of Mathematics Education is to disconnect it from other human activities. The challenge for the teacher is that they lack precisely the skills/mechanisms to make concepts and applications palatable to a student who does not see any sense in what is seen in a classroom. In order to discuss this topic, a bibliographic research was carried out, which brings contributions to a reflection on the work of the Mathematics teacher so that teaching does not become something monotonous and repetitive.