Passeios Aleatórios da Carlinha: uma sequência de ensino de probabilidade

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the didactic opportunities of a Probability teaching activity (SE) proposed to secondary (11-14 years) and high school (14-17 years) students. This SE named “Passeios Aleatórios da Carlinha” was developed by team of “Virtual Environment for support in developing statistical literacy for scholar students (AVALE-EB)” to be used in paper and pencil learning environment such as virtual environment. This SE provides to discuss probabilistic basic concepts, construct simple frequency tables and respective bar charts, compare deterministic situation and random experiments, estimate probabilities with relative frequency, compute theoretical probability by using possibilities tree and compare the estimate and theoretical probability. The teacher can explore these concepts in a progressive manner, according to knowledge level of students. Besides, the entertainment way of SE highlights students becomes motivated and relaxed during the activity and everyone can accomplish the task and realize the importance of the concepts of Probability, which enhances the feasibility of this SE in schools.