POSSIBILITY FOR TEACHING FIRST GRADE EQUATIONS TO STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT (Atena Editora)

Abstract

This article aims to present a study carried out on the master's work “Inclusive Mathematics Education with the blind: the process of constructing a concrete material for teaching first-degree equations” produced by Luí Fellippe da Silva Bellincantta Mollossi, in the Postgraduate Program -Graduation in Science, Mathematics and Technology Teaching, from ``Universidade Estadual de Santa Catarina`` – UDESC. This was a bibliographic study, which began with an internet search for scientific works that dealt with the history of education for the visually impaired, education for the visually impaired and concrete teaching materials for teaching mathematics to the visually impaired. As a result of the study, it was possible to see that the blind, as well as people with other disabilities, were once very marginalized, but that this has been changing over many centuries; at the turn of the Modern Age to the contemporary Age, the first teaching works for the blind began to appear; in Brazil the first school for the blind dates back to the time of the empire; that in recent decades, interest in education for the visually impaired has increased, with research suggesting pedagogical practices with very efficient results.