O uso do soroban para educando cego : concepções e perspectivas

Abstract

Within the context of education it is of the utmost importance to insert the idea of inclusion. In this work, teaching is totally geared towards mathematics and inclusive education for the blind. For that, it is approached from the braille writing method, the initial source of the social inclusion of these people, until the beginnings of human evolution, when man felt the need to create a numerical form of counting. Primarily, ancient peoples created counting techniques through the abacuses, the oldest numerical counter. In Japan, this abacus was called soroban, and this study will address its history, as well as the way this manual calculation tool is used in blind student education at the Louis Braille Rehab Center, in performing basic mathematical operations. Our theoretical support was based on Birch, B (1993), Realy, L. (2004), Camargo, E.P; Nardi, R (2008).