Brazilian High School Mathematics Textbooks and the Constitution of the Good Student Citizen

Resumo

In this paper, we present some of the results of a research project, which aims to analyse the framing for constitution of students as subjects that is put forward in mathematics textbooks. Two themes contained in Brazilian high school Mathematics textbooks were analysed to achieve the proposed intention: financial mathematics and interdisciplinarity. The five statements were elaborated by using the discourse analysis in a Foucauldian perspective, they show that the teaching proposed by textbooks goes beyond mathematics, normalizing the students’ conducts.