FROM TEACHER EDUCATION TO PRACTICE: A TEACHER’S FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH MATHEMATICAL MODELLING IN THE EARLY YEARS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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This paper aims to highlight how Luna’s first experience with mathematical modelling took place. In 2024, Luna was teaching a first-grade class in an elementary school in Northern Paraná, composed of 17 students around six years old, in a private school. She holds a degree in Psychology and obtained her teaching qualification through a teacher education course. The experience resulted from her participation in an extension course on Mathematical Modelling and took place in 2024. The design of the course was structured around three formative axes: learning about modelling, learning through modelling, and teaching using modelling, promoting theoretical discussions, the development of activities, the study of experiences, and the implementation of a practice upon which reflections were woven. The teacher’s account highlights the importance of formative moments in which support from the teacher educators is provided, especially through dialogues that seek an interlocution with the reality of the classroom and that consider the specificities of the students. For the teacher, these were fundamental characteristics for naturalising the use of modelling in the classroom.

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Emerson Tortola, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná

Professor da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR) e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ensino de Matemática (PPGMAT). Licenciado em Matemática pela Faculdade Estadual de Ciências e Letras de Campo Mourão (Fecilcam), atual Universidade Estadual do Paraná (Unespar), com Mestardo, Doutorado e Pós-Doutorado em Ensino de Ciências e Educação Matemática pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL).

Karine de Oliveira, UTFPR

Coordenadora Pedagógica dos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. Arapongas, Paraná, Brasil. Licenciada em Pedagogia (Unespar/Fecea). Especialista em Psicopedagogia Clínica e Institucional. Mestranda em Ensino de Matemática pela Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR). 

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28-09-2026

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Vol. 8 No. 16 (2026): Edição Especial: Modelagem na Educação Matemática: vivências na Educação Infantil e nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental

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