Arithmética escolar nos livros didáticos de Ayres de Vasconcellos Cardoso homem e domingos Affonso Machado (Maranhão, século XIX)

Abstract

This work deals with School Arithmetic aimed at primary education, in two textbooks, published in the State of Maranhão in the 19th century. The first book, authored by Ayres de Vasconcellos Cardoso Homem, was published in 1846. The second, by Domingos Affonso Machado, published in 1895. Its objective is investigate the organization of Arithmetic contents proposed in textbooks Ayres de Vasconcellos and Domingos Machado. This is a qualitative research, of a bibliographic and documentary-descriptive nature. We count on the theoretical contribution by authors such as: Valente (2007; 2013), Silva (2016) Bittencourt (1993), Bloch (2002), Costa (2010), Pinto (2007), among others. For documentary research, books textbooks written by Homem and Machado were taken as the main source. Like this Therefore, we have the following guiding question: how do the contents of Arithmetic were organized in the textbooks First Notions of Arithmetic and Questions Arithmetic practices, for use by students in primary schools in the Maranhão from the 19th century? It is important to highlight that these books were collected in the GHEMAT Digital Content Repository-RCD. As preliminary results, the study points out that the LDs covered present the subjects of Arithmetic of didactic way and with a direct methodology, presenting practical examples to explanation of the content.