
This article aims to analyze the learning of mathematics that constitutes mathematical modeling in the classroom, understanding mathematical modeling as the organization of empirical situations. We analyze the subject from the understanding of mathematics as a normative system governed by rules. It is an understanding developed by the analyzes of the philosophical delimitations of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the theoretical interpretations of Anna Sfard. The speeches produced by a group of students and a teacher, obtained through the observation of empirical situations, were used as material for the analysis of the topic. The uses that the students and the teacher attributed to the words allowed us to identify that the discursive game of modeling is played under the rules established in the way of life of mathematics developed in the school context.
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