Resumen

This study, which is part of a doctoral research, presents data from a continued formation in environmental education and mathematics for math teachers, focusing on the problem-situations elaborated in this formation and that involve mathematical contents with environmental themes. The problem-situations addressed the issue of water, waste, pollution, wildlife, vegetation, energy, the permanent preservation areas – PPA and involved the contents of statistics, rule of three, percentage, proportion, operations with natural numbers, perimeter, area and measures of length, mass and volume. The created situations were used by teachers participating of the formation, in the final grades of municipal and state elementary schools of São Sebastião do Caí. As testimony and analysis of these teachers, this work influenced their practices in relation to environmental themes, because they worked with activities that relate everyday situations with formal education, raising environmental awareness and the interest of students by environmental themes within contextualized proposals.