Uma investigação em sala de aula numa escola do campo a partir de situações que possibilitam a construção do raciocínio lógico probabilístico.

Abstract

Today students, even as children, are subjected to a wide variety of information, they are always having to use judgments, interpretations, choices, and at the same time perceive relationships between everyday situations, such as a bad internet signal when heavy rains. These everyday situations show us the importance of working early, the construction of probabilistic reasoning, since the knowledge in probability has gained new meanings from the questions in the world today. Thus, we believe it is necessary to create teaching strategies to promote this probabilistic thinking in schools, not teaching complex calculations of probability in the initial or final years of elementary school, but allowing children to reflect on some elements that involve probabilistic reasoning as: uncertainty, randomness, sample space and independence of events, among others, so that they can gradually build the knowledge necessary to understand the probability. In this way, the central theme of this work was the construction of probabilistic reasoning by the child, with the general objective of understanding situations that imply probabilistically thinking in a classroom of the field with elementary school children - final years. For that, we used the qualitative research approach of the field research type, which was developed in a public school in the municipality of Sumé-PB. After our investigative activities, it was possible to perceive that there is still a gap in the teaching of probability in Elementary School, however, students showed intuitive potential when presented to the concepts of probability in a contextualized way, enabling a better construction of probabilistic reasoning from the mobilization of basic concepts.