This text was elaborated in autonomous topics in order to discuss the configuration of mathematical education as an area of research and, in a historical panorama, explains and analyses how the efforts for its consolidation in Brazil have been effectively implemented. Starting from a presentation of some elements related to the emergence and organisation of research in mathematical education within an international perspective (D'Ambrósio), it goes on to sketch in the motivations and difficulties which led to the creation of a specific working group in mathematical education within ANPEd (Igliori). Finally, Miguel and Garnica discuss the implementation of mathematical education as a discipline from different theoretical perspectives. There are, then, four different views and voices, at times finely tuned and, at others, discordant which arise rooted in that space which the authors with their discourses, desire to see consolidated - mathematical education.
mathematical education; research; formation as a discipline