Drawings and graphics in the production of meaning by students in an Analytic Geometry course

Abstract

This investigation aims to analyze how students and professor conceive
aspects related to acquisition, construction and interpretation of senses or meanings,
produced or exposed while studying and teaching in an Analytic Geometry course
for Mathematics Undergraduate students at the State University of Feira de Santana -
BA. For this purpose, a research is carried out based on ethnographical practice,
considering the proposal and argument that an environment is constituted by a
multicultural cognitive universe or even by a micro-society, rich in the production of
meanings. Thus, the method of observation places the researcher in a estrangement
position, aiming at an impartial view. In this context, it is admitted that graphical
representations carry along psychological and sociological factors, perceptive,
cognitive and affective schemes, and also that social and cultural factors are directly
related to multiple interpretations concerning a geometrical, mathematical and
symbolical element.