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This paper presents results of a case study accomplished in the discipline of Practice of Teaching of Mathematics, of the course of Mathematics of the Federal University of Integration of Latino America (UNILA). Ponte (1994) affirms that a case study is an empiric investigation whose results are presented, most of the time, in descriptive form. However, it can has an analytical form if it interrogates a situation and to confront it with other known situation. The case study presented in this paper is a qualitative research. In it we analyzed contributions of the history of the mathematics and history of mathematics education for the teachers' initial formation. The data was collected with interview, audios of dialogues concerning the activities among the professor and student, the student's notebook, a videoclass produced by him, and professor's annotations. This study of case shows that the history can contribute to the construction of mathematical concepts and for the reflection about mathematics teaching and bring news results when it is confronted to others researches that was made by members of our research group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 1970s, in many Brazilian states, the Project Logos II was implemented. The objective of such program was to capacitate teachers who did not have a formal education, also known as lay teachers. In the state of Rondônia, the Logos II started to operate in 1976, and its expansion to the cities of the interior of the state occurred from the 1980s onwards. Given this situation, this article aims at discussing and composing a history of how the implementation and development of the Project Logos II was carried out over the years in the state of Rondônia. As theoretical and methodological references, we used the triangulation of data by Sandra Mathison (1988), Carlo Ginzburg's (1989) evidential paradigm and Marc Bloch's (2001) documentary criticism. The source documents included teaching modules, legislations, enrollment forms, school records, diplomas, photos of students and teachers and other documents. The results indicated that the Project Logos II in Rondônia formed and capacitated many teachers from the rural area, who experienced various difficulties to complete the course due to the lack of infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper means to elaborate a history that emphasizes relationships among national journals about the mathematical teaching and movements in Mathematical Education. It relates scientifical journals that approach the teaching and learning of the mathematics, since the nineteenth century. After this, it analyzes the Boletim GEPEM, in the period from 1976 until 2006. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]