Abstract

This article presents a research about practices of construction and interpretation of a figure representing ostensive and non-ostensive entities in a variation phenomenon. It is a qualitative case study, investigating some practices of figuration based on the Cartesian’s graph historical constitution and other cases on student’s productions. It is an interpretive study, since it seeks to understand figurative practices cases of scientists and other cases of student’s figuration. It is analytical, since the study seeks analytical factors in figuration practices embedded in these practices. And relational, since it seeks to establish links and dissonance, regarding the elements that are being configured. We understand the student and historical figurations of what varies from an epistemology of figuration perspective.