As concepções de modelagem matemática presentes nas dissertações e teses defendidas no período 2017 e 2021

Abstract

The application of Mathematical Modeling as a teaching methodology has been widely studied in recent years, resulting in the constitution of different concepts and application methodologies in the school environment. Thus, this research sought, through the analysis of theses and dissertations, to understand which conception of Mathematical Modeling was used in the classroom between the years 2017 and 2021. Thus, from the Digital Bank of Theses and Dissertations (DBTD) the surveys were collected and selected so that only those that best met the objectives of this research were chosen. Then, an analysis of the works was carried out based on the ideas of Content Analysis according to Bardin (2016). From this process, it was possible to divide the conceptions into two classifications: Applied Mathematics and Mathematics Education, where, within the latter, it was possible to identify conceptions that present the essential purpose of learning mathematical content while others aim at a critical and social formation of the student. In addition to these results, it was also possible to observe the development of these researches according to the year of application, the geographic region and by title, revealing a little of the panorama in which the researches of Mathematical Modeling applied in the classroom are found. Thus, the results found throughout the research present an overview of the research and point out topics that can be studied in future investigations.