Ensino de estatística na escola do campo: uma proposta para um 6º ano do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The present work aims at analyzing the contributions the Teaching of Statistics a school in the countryside a proposal for a in a sixth grade class of Elementary School. The literature review on the Education in the Countryside was supported in Molina (2012), Caldart (2004, 2012), Vendramini (2007) ,Cavalcanti (2010), among others. In addition, basis was seek in the Curricular Guidelines of Education in the Countryside in Paraná (2007), and in the Operational Guidelines of Education in the Countryside (2002). As far as Statistical Education is concerned, it is presented with basis on the three learning competences: the statistical literacy supported by Soares (1998), Gal (2002), Lopes (2003, 2008 e 2009) and Campos, Wodwotzki and Jacobini (2011), the statistical thought pointed out by Wild and Pannkuch (1999), and the statistical thinking defined by Sdlmeier (1999) and Garfild (2002). Furthermore, proposals of combinations of the three competences by Campos (2007) and Silva (2007) are presented. The literature on the characteristics of the research has its foundations in Best (1969), Bogdan (1994), Roesch (1996), Barbosa (2003), Rosa (2009), and Moreira and Caleffe (2008). In order to achieve the proposed aim, in the year of 2012 some applied research was carried out; it was qualitative with an interpretative and descriptive analysis, in a sixth grade class of Elementary School in a state public school in the countryside in the town of Imbituva, Paraná. To begin with, a questionnaire was applied and answered by the students and their families, establishing the starting point of the work with these students’ reality. Next, an analysis of the math textbook available in this school in the countryside was done, justifying the importance of making up teaching proposals adapted to this reality. After that, a learning sequence was carried out, based on the data collected in the questionnaire, in as many varied representations as possible. A work with basic concepts of statistics was also developed, all involving the students’ local reality. While applying the learning sequence, it was noticed that the students were highly motivated when collecting, organizing and summarizing data, representing them in several ways. The pupils’ involvement was positive; they carried it out in a neat and clear way, in an attempt to produce the statistical information very objectively. At last, a project of sensitiveness was carried out by means of statistical data, such a fact that helped students socialize the practices in the classroom. This way, they were able to show their opinion on the readings done, debating social themes of their reality with the aim of presenting the problems due to their culture, and at the same time presenting solutions for the search of sustainable development. As a final product of this work, some new material to support the teacher was worked out, containing a learning sequence based on the reality of a school in the countryside for the sixth grade of Elementary School. Such work is attached to this thesis.