FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF GRAPHICS: THE PETS OF FIRST YEAR OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

With the purpose of studying statistical from a perspective of literacy, a group of studies coordinated by teacher Keli Cristina Conti was created in September 2010 in College Atibaia (FAAT). Teachers of Elementary School and Pedagogy students of the institution are part of the group. Motivated by the discussions and presentations of the group works, we have proposed an activity to a first grade of Elementary School class in a private school in Atibaia (São Paulo State). The planning of the class was based on the Brazilian National Curriculum Parameters – PCN (BRASIL, 1997) since there is the block of content called "Information Treatment", including the study of statistics. The class was entitled "pets" and its objectives were: leading students to know a column chart and know how to interpret it; counting and comparing numbers resulting from the counting using graphic information; writing the names of animals, working the vowels and consonants and syllabic separation. We described the steps developed with the class, such as the presentation of the theme, graphing, elaboration and its interpretation and construction of a table. We believe that we could provide a good initial contact with the statistics, encouraging students to observe, make hypotheses, collect data, organize them (treating them) and read and interpret them when arranged in a graphic and a table. We believe that the choice of the theme was also important, based on interest and "real life" by encouraging students to observe phenomena that occur around them.

Key words: Education; Mathematics Education; Statistics Education.