Concept of Gender and Mathematics Education

Abstract

The text presents the emergence of the concept of gender in education, showing its different nuances, and proposes its incorporation as a category of analysis in the field of Mathematics Education, in which the discussions on gender are rarely detected, especially when we analyze the Brazilian production. Taking as references the female scholars in the field of gender studies, we have reflected on the need of incorporating such concept into the investigation about the processes of teaching and learning Mathematics, the subjects in the pedagogical relations, and the cultural mode of conceiving, using and evaluating mathematical knowledge. Such incorporation would imply, however, the disruption in the ways in which we have thought concepts related to female, male and mathematics. Keywords: Gender. Mathematics Education. Research.