  Currently, in order to explain the accelerated expansion phase of the
universe, several alternative approaches have been proposed, among which the
most common are dark energy models and alternative theories of gravity.
Although these approaches rest on very different physical aspects, it has been
shown that both are in agreement with the data in the current status of
cosmological observations, thus leading to an enormous degeneration between
these models. So until evidences of higher experimental accuracy are available,
more conservative model independent approaches are a useful tool for breaking
this degenerated cosmological models picture. Cosmography as a kinematic study
of the universe is the most popular candidate on this regard. Here we show how
to construct the cosmographic equations for the f (R, T ) theory of gravity
within a conservative scenario of this theory, where R is the Ricci curvature
scalar and T is the trace of the energy-moment tensor. Such equations relate
f(R,T) and its derivatives at the current time t0 to the cosmographic
parameters q0, j0 and s0. In addition, we show how these equations can be
written within different dark energy scenarios, thus helping to discriminate
between them. We also show how different f(R,T) gravity models can be
constrained using these cosmographic equations.
