Percepções de um grupo de professores de matemática da educação básica em relação à estratégia de ensino aplicação de modelos.

This article aims to present the perceptions of a group of basic education mathematics teachers regarding the teaching strategy called application of models and highlight its relationship with mathematical modelling in the educational context. This study is an excerpt of a doctoral research in science and mathematics education. After giving the participants a questionnaire on the subject, we analysed their responses based on the discursive textual analysis, which pointed out six different ways of perceiving the application of models, according to the emerging categories of their reports. We also found a close relationship between the application of models and mathematical modelling, which may favour the classroom modelling practice of the teachers, who still feel insecure about its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]