Educação matemática para alunos surdos: um estudo realizado na Rede Municipal de Educação de Balsas - MA

Abstract

This work discusses the education of the deaf, presenting a trajectory marked by challenges and achievements, from the beginnings of society with exclusionary principles to the present day in the quest for inclusion, revealing it to be a complex subject that has still been little studied. In the field of Mathematics Education, there are many challenges to be faced, such as language barriers and a lack of accessible materials. This work analyzes the process of teaching Mathematics to deaf students in the Municipal Education Network of the city of Balsas - MA, through a qualitative approach and field research for data collection, based on the work from Costa (2013), together with Borges (2013), Miranda and Miranda (2011), Costa and Silveira (2014) and Nascimento (2019). Based on the results obtained, we realized that deaf education in the municipality faces some challenges such as teachers' lack of knowledge about Libras and the absence of interpreters in classrooms, highlighting the need for investments, from continuing teacher training to work with deaf students, the acquisition of trained professionals and materials adapted to work with deaf people