Advanced Mathematical Thinking Processes Evidenced in Resolutions of Questions of ENADE

This article presents some results of a research aimed to describe and discuss clues/characteristics of the Advanced Mathematical Thinking processes evidenced in the written production of Mathematics students to solve discursive questions of the ENADE test. We analyzed the written records of two issues that have been applied in a class of fourth year of mathematics courses in a university north of Paraná. We conclude, on the theory of Dreyfus (2002), that: six students mobilized the process of symbolic representation, four students mobilized the process of switching representations and translating, two students mobilized the process of modeling, four students mobilized the synthesis process and no student mobilized the process of generalization. However, we infer that no student mobilized all the processes of the Advanced Mathematical Thinking in its resolutions.

Mathematics Education; Higher Education; Advanced Mathematical Thinking; ENADE