"Introdução à álgebra" nos livros didáticos voltados para a EJA

Abstract

This work presents an analysis of some textbooks of Mathematics focused on EJA Educação de Jovens e Adultos (Education for Youth and Adults). We especially analyzed the part of "introduction of algebra" in two textbooks, describing its language, form and content, according to the specificity of the public of EJA, besides to investigate the importance of studying this content for this modality. Mathematics has a very important role in the formation of the citizen, since is present in day to day and it is essential to know how to deal with it. As in EJA the course duration is less, the contents to be worked must be more objective and not give rise to infantilization, causing that students of EJA feel discouraged and occurs educational evasion. For literature searches, we saw a certain consensus that the times and adult learning rhythms are very different from those that proposes to children and adolescents and that, therefore, both the content to be worked out, such as the times and teaching methods should have their own profiles. The main results achieved in this work, analyzing the textbooks, shows that, although few in number, activities could contribute to a raising of the conscience of students about their role in society to which they belong and that the textbook would be one of the tools to catch up that target.