An overview of the publications of four journals in the area of mathematics education regarding games as didactic resources for teaching mathematics ; Un panorama de las publicaciones de cuatro revistas del área de educación matemática sobre los juegos como recursos didácticos para la enseñanza de las matemáticas ; Um panorama das publicações de quatro periódicos da área de educação de matemática a respeito de jogos como recursos didáticos para o ensino de matemática

This is a qualitative research that aimed to develop and present an overview of publications about the use of games for teaching mathematics in four journals. The selected journals were: Boletim de Educação Matemática (Bolema), Zetetiké, Revista de Educação Matemática (REMat) and Educação Matemática em Revista (EMR). Searches were made on the online pages of journals for articles that had the word games and/or expressions as games for teaching mathematics in their title, abstract or keywords. In the analyzes, carried out through the full reading of the 18 selected texts, four general themes were identified: Proposal for teaching through games, application of games in the teaching of mathematics, theorizing about the use of games for the teaching of mathematics and games as an argumentative resource to deal with mathematics. A finding of this research was the fact that most publications involve elementary education. It is inferred that this must happen for the reason of the game bringing the mathematical content closer to a less formal context and providing the institutionalization of the contents gradually from the situations of games. An important observation concerns the small number of publications (18) about the use of games for teaching mathematics found in these journals, considering that the total period was 26 years of publications of the analyzed journals. This may indicate that there is a gap in research that deals with the use of games for teaching and learning mathematics. ; Esta es una investigación cualitativa que tuvo como objetivo desarrollar y presentar una visión general de las publicaciones sobre el uso de juegos para la enseñanza de las matemáticas en cuatro revistas. Las revistas seleccionadas fueron: Boletim de Educação Matemática (Bolema), Zetetiké, Revista de Educação Matemática (REMat) y Educação Matemática em Revista (EMR). Se realizaron búsquedas en las páginas online de las revistas de artículos que tenían las palabras juegos y/o expresiones como juegos para la enseñanza de las ...