Mobile learning como instrumento para o processo de ensino de estatística nos anos finais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The current generation has experienced a context in which technologies occupy a vast space in the social, academic and professional scope of human beings, regardless of age and class. Then, it is necessary to rethink the teaching action, and the role of the teacher in perder to bring these technological instruments closer to the student's daily school life, so that their inclusion in the classroom actually takes place, providing opportunities for the promotion of teaching with the use of Digital Educational Technologies (TEDs) to students. Considering this, the present work aims to investigate educational practices for teaching statistics in the final years of elementary school through the use of applications for mobile devices characterized by the Mobile Learning (M-Learning) method. The study is a descriptive quantitative/qualitative research divided into four central steps. Initially, a bibliographic survey of works in literature that seeks to highlight the importance of teaching statistics, the use of Digital Educational Technologies in teaching activities and the Mobile Learning teaching method was carried out. Studies and research were carried out with students from the three groups of 6th grade at public elementary school via Google Form on Accessibility to Digital Technologies and their experiences with remote learning. For the insertion of TEDs, statistical activities were applied through the online game platform Kahoot! using the Google Meet video communication service. As the final proposal of this research, an Educational Product was developed, being an application for smartphones called “Fun Statistics”, elaborated from the systematic mapping of the applications for mobile devices available for downloads from the search word “Statistics” on the Google Play Store, an online store directed to the Android operating system, in order to analyze existent tools that aim to assist in the teaching process of statistics for the final years of elementary school. From the developed practices, it was observed that those can help in the students' teaching process by facilitating the approach of concepts, content resumption and development of activities in a dynamic way, seeking to promote meaningful learning for students.