MAPPING OF BRAZILIAN RESEARCH ON LABORATORIES ASSOCIATED WITH MATHEMATICS: ANALYSIS OF 40 YEARS OF ACADEMIC PRODUCTION

Abstract

This article, the result of a doctoral investigation, intends to present a mapping of academic research (dissertations and theses) produced in Brazil, in the last 40 years (1983 to 2022), which bring the laboratories associated with Mathematics as one of its main focuses. As a scientific report of an inventorying research, which seeks to draw a panorama, it begins by briefly highlighting facts and texts historically demarcated in the development of the subject of laboratories. It then details methodologically the construction of the Research Database (Base) organized in a spreadsheet generated from data collected from 55 works, results of master’s degrees (academic and professional) and doctorates in postgraduate programs in the areas of Education, Teaching and Mathematics. Among the main results, it is highlighted the finding that the scientific production on laboratories has not been uniform, although the discussions on the subject are not recent. Since the first academic production (1983), there is a time lapse of 14 years for emergence of new works; even so, only from 2010 the production begins to take shape. It is also observed that the works are more concentrated in just two Brazilian regions (Northeast and Southeast); the Teaching area holds most of the researches; professional master’s degrees have assumed a prominent place in this production.