Algebra and Math Modeling: an overview of brazilian research in the last years

In this article, a overview of studies involving Mathematical Modeling and Algebra, focused on Basic Education, is presented with the objective of analyzing how the researches use Mathematical Modeling to aid in Algebra classes. For that, a search of dissertations and theses on the themes was carried out, in the Catalog of Thesis and Dissertations of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (CAPES), and from that, a refinement and analysis of the researches was carried out. It was observed how these works dealt with algebra contents and how mathematical modeling helped them in the process. As a result it can be noticed that there are researches relating Mathematical Modeling with algebra contents, and most of them approach the content of functions with focus in High School.