Teaching mathematics in rural schools through the Dialectic Mediation Methodology

This paper approaches the need for pedagogical work within the scope of Rural Education, mainly Mathematics teaching. It seeks to justify the defense of a differentiated work, which takes as its starting point, the students’ mathematical knowledge and allows its broadening in such a way that the mathematical knowledge acquired is really useful in their everyday life. Taking the Rural Education Curricular Guidelines into account, this study presents the main points for the development of a dialectic mediation methodology, which establishes relations between the different knowledge of teachers and students, so that the students can overcome their immediate knowledge of the world, through mathematical knowledge historically built by humankind.