Avaliação em matemática: história e outras discussões

Abstract

This work will focus on delving deeper into one of the main characteristics of Mathematics Assessment, the history. That said, a historical study will be presented on how assessment was carried out and whether the forms of assessment served the purpose of being a guiding strategy for pedagogical practice, whether they promoted learning, diagnosed or merely punished and segregated. To this end, it is necessary to elucidate the main differences between examining and assessments and how these practices have been confused over time, even though they have different implications in the classroom. Therefore, through bibliographical research, texts and theorists that influenced the history behind this practice in Brazil and the world will be studied, from Antiquity, going through colonial Jesuit pedagogy to the Contemporary times. Understanding the blaming and erasure of errors, certain persistent traditional practices and the constant application of tests in mathematics is only possible to uncover through a chronological historical study of the History of Assessment in Brazil.