O conceito de número na Educação Matemática: uma incursão em pesquisas com crianças

This research aims to analyze how the debate on the concept of number has been approached in research with children from early childhood education and early years of elementary school; based on its objectives, research and teaching methodologies and inferences. In this sense, we produced a survey in three databases: BDTD, CTD and ENEM, which led to fifteen studies. Data analysis was performed using Content Analysis methodology (BARDIN, 2011). While analyzing the material, we found out that the research is concentrated in the Southeast region, they are, in most part, dissertations, and there is an indication of growth in these studies in the last five years. In addition, regarding the research objectives, we observed that even though the research involves young subjects such as children, there is an influence of discussions in the teaching field. With regard to teaching and research methodologies, the use of sequence of activities and case study have the greatest role. Concerning the inferences, we noticed that many are still generic and with few considerations with respect to the concept of number.