Matemática e educação infantil: mapeamento dos trabalhos publicados nos anais do Encontro Nacional de Educação Matemática no período de 1987 a 2019

Abstract

This work aims to identify the approaches of papers that articulate Mathematics and Early Childhood Education published in the actas of the Encontro Nacional de Educação Matemática (ENEM) - National Meeting on Mathematics Education in the period from 1987 to 2019. In the theoretical framework, we based ourselves on official documents of Early Childhood Education and Mathematical Education, in addition to authors who discuss the subject. We conducted a mapping, presenting data, from bibliographical research with a descriptive approach. From the reading and analysis of the abstracts of the 71 papers we identified, corpus of this study, which evidenced two investigative axes: Teacher training who teaches mathematics and Methodologies and didactic resources for the teaching of mathematics. On the first axis, there are studies focused: Initial and continuous teacher training and Practices and conceptions of early childhood education, that reinforce the role of this professional because he is in a constant process of construction and reconstruction of his praxis, in addition to seeking various teaching strategies and methodologies with a view to meaningful learning of students. The papers with focus in the methodologies and didactic resources for the teaching of mathematics evidenced the need for planning, organization of space and time, of the materials to be used. The mapping revealed a transverse axis, that involves the contents: numbers, space and shape and quantities and measures. The results reveal that there is a predominance in studies on numbers (26) and those focused on teaching methodologies and resources (19). Although this study found an increase in papers involving this theme in the last three editions of the ENEM (2013; 2016; 2019) the number is still considered low, showing that it is still necessary to expand the scientific publications that articulate the teaching of Mathematics in Early Childhood Education.