Educação estatística – uma proposta de ensino

Abstract

An important question to be analised in the field of Education is how students learn, as well as the way interdisciplinary approaches can be established in science. Researches in the field of Education have emphasized teacher´s necessities to find out ways to help students to learn. Nevetheless, most of time teachers’ knowledge in relation to this problem demand an interdiciplinary approach in the classroom. Aiming to improve it, the statitics´pedagogical practice has been investigated in order to find out a cientifical methological way to help the practice of teaching and its application in the classroom. This work tries to develop a research about statistics education in schools, asking teachers and students in relation to the importance of developing a significative mathematic, in which its role is essencial in student´s life. The purpose of this research is to offer some interdisciplinary problems to be solve in order to come out with the importance of considering the statitics´user attitudes, trying to emphasis that the mathematics as well as the statics has been present in student´s life, for example, as long as students are citizen getting media information´s as well as statistics professionals - who work with statistics‘ information as well as researchers - who work with scientific methodologies. the results suggests that it is important to consider that teachers should know student´s reality in order to interfere taking in consideration: a) the relations’ diversity involved in different situations in which the teacher takes part to participate in the process of teaching and learning and; b) the social cultural contexts in which students participate.