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GEOGEBRA AND NUMERICAL REPRESENTATIONS: A PROPOSAL INVOLVING FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM OF ARITHMETIC
Gerson Oliveira  1, 2@  
1 : Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo  (PUC/SP)  -  Website
Rua Marquês de Paranaguá, 111 Consolação 01303-050 São Paulo - SP -  Brazil
2 : Universidade Paulista - Campus Jundiaí  (UNIP)  -  Website
Av. Armando Giassetti, 577 - Vila Hortolandia 13214-525 Jundiaí - SP -  Brazil

This paper reports a qualitative research whose subjects were Elementary School Teachers who took part in a workshop about primality of positive integers and the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic (FTA). These topics was dealt with from different technological perspectives and analysed under a theoretical proposal connected to the concepts of transparency and opacity of numerical representations and to the "humans-with-media" approach. The interactions occurred in a Post Graduate Program in Mathematics Education and they consisted of two activities created to ask subjects which numbers in a random list would be prime. The analysis showed that participants had difficulties with FTA, which led them to adopt strategies with a high cognitive cost and make mistakes. Likewise, data showed that hindrances were overcome based on the educational proposal planned from a configuration of humans-with-GeoGebra.


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