A produção de farinha de mandioca no povoado bandeira:

Abstract

The objective of this work was to analyze and identify the knowledge and mathematical concepts present in the practices of people who work in the process of cassava flour production. For this purpose the empirical research was carried out in the community of village Bandeira, Wanderland - TO describing the entire process of cassava flour production, from soil preparation to flour marketing. Aiming to know and understand mathematical knowledge and how they articulate to everyday actions, the research used ethnomathematical fundamentals, and thus carried out the analysis of the data collected from the theoretical reference, in order to identify in what form these mathematical knowledge Can contribute to the teaching of Mathematics. With a qualitative approach and of ethnographic character the research made use of observations, interviews, testimonies, photos and recordings. In addition to searching for mathematical knowledge and notions, the research sought to describe the culture of a people; and the culture of flour production in an artisanal way, before this mode of production disappears. The results showed that these flour producers use mathematical knowledge adapted to the different daily tasks, such as the size of planted area and the amount of flour produced. It is this mathematical knowledge that we call Ethnomathematics.