A etnomatemática na construção civil: Um estudo de caso na empresa Raposo Construções

Abstract

The study presented here aims to investigate ethnomathematics present in the “world of civil construction”. The subjects participating in the research were 06 construction workers, namely: civil engineer, hydraulic assistant, servant, bricklayer, shipwright and carpenter, both belonging to the company Raposo Empreendimentos e Construções Ltda in the city of Bacabal-MA. Our analysis used an approach of interviewing workers through audio recordings where information regarding the interviews was collected. The activities of this proposal were designed with the intention of instilling workers' knowledge in relation to ethnomathematics and mathematical knowledge in the area of civil construction. The results show through the questions adopted in the interviews that construction workers are unaware of the ethnomathematic expression. However, they demonstrate ease in relation to the mathematical knowledge that they use in construction, such as counting, measurement and calculations that are made.