Resumen

MEDEIROS ALVES, Antônio Maurício. Prefácios de livros didáticos de matemática: uma possível leitura da história da matemática escolar no brasil (1943-1995). Paradígma [online]. 2005, vol.26, n.2, pp.57-76. ISSN 1011-2251.

The present work is resulted partially of the research Mathematics text book: A historical approach (1943 - 1995), it was presented as master's degree dissertation in Fae/UFPEL. The research used as methodology the documental analysis, considering as documents text books of the four final series of the current fundamental teaching, of the period of 1943 up to 1995. Among the objectives of the research they are: the recover of the different mathematics present in the text books, the understanding of the path of the Mathematics while it disciplines school in the fundamental teaching and, still, to verify which changes and permanences in the teaching of the mathematics can identify in the text books. To assist to the objectives proposed in the dissertation, it was considered as first analysis object the forewords of the selected text books. The text here presented tries to elaborate a possible reading of the history of the school Mathematics in Brazil, starting from the found forewords, relating those texts to facts of the history of the Mathematics while it school disciplines.

Palabras clave : história da educação; história da matemática; livro didático.