What mathematics happens in a Math Workshop? Affective cartographies in workshops with children

Abstract

In this article, we outline affective cartographies in workshops held with children who participate in a School Support Center, a multidisciplinary space aimed at students with difficulties at school, and in an extension project, entitled XXXX. The activities developed between the years 2022 and 2024 took place in the form of workshops, in a kind of composition plan with mathematics, amidst a cartographic and formative process. The workshops were created and executed by undergraduate students in Mathematics at the Federal University XXXX, Brazil. The process involved in this work forms a set of knowledge, experiences and sensibilities that, when thinking about how mathematics happens in this space and under these conditions, are placed in investigation mode. In this article, we intend to present some of the workshops carried out, outlining the meanings and feelings fostered and experienced by undergraduate students, school children, researchers and coordinators.