Manifestation of popular culture - carnival: A comparative analysis of the processes of creating allegories, mathematical modeling and ethnomathematics

Abstract

The research presented here is an excerpt of a Master’s dissertation of Post-Graduate Educa­tion in Science and Mathematics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul whose empirical data were derived from a creator of carni­val allegories. The objective was to make a compar­ative analysis of the process of creating allegories, mathematical modeling and ethno-mathematics. The methodological procedures were divided into two stages: empirical understanding and significance of the data in the light of the theory. First stage: the understanding and the ethnography of the place and the person who creates the allegories for a carnival parade. Second stage: the significance involved the organization, classification and analysis of data com­paring the process of creating allegories and model­ing procedures and ethno-mathematics. The analysis of the processes involved suggests that people who create something in the most diverse areas pertain in the same steps as prescribed both in modeling and in ethno-mathematics.