NARRATIVES OF TEACHERS: AN INVESTIGATIVE STUDY IN THE MATHEMATICS IN EDUCATION OF PARINTINS/AM

This article presents the results of a research that investigated experiences of teachers who have ministered and / or teach mathematical discipline in the municipality of Parintins / AM, in the period from 1960-2010, aiming to build records about pedagogical practices in the Mathematical Education. For this, we used the Oral History as a qualitative research methodology, taking as references authors as Connelly; Clandinin (1995), Garnica (2005), Gattaz (1996), Meihy (2007) and Thompson (1998) discuss that of the following investigative purpose: preparation, elaboration and analysis of the narratives. The narratives of the teachers emphasized the approaches, teaching strategies and evaluative processes that sustained and / or sustain their pedagogical works. Among the results it stand out from the changes occurred in mathematics education and the intrinsic relationship between the faculty knowledge and pedagogical practices of the teachers of mathematics in last five decades. It was noticed that in the first decades of the study, there was a shortage of qualified teachers, of didactic resources and access to information; beside it add to the difficulties inherent to life in an island in the Amazon State, but in last decades of the study already see significant changes with the implantation of the universities in the municipality.