Produção de tarefas estatísticas com história em quadrinhos: uma investigação no ensino fundamental

Abstract

The main objective of this qualitative research is to investigate the production of statistical tasks theoretically based on Model of Semantic Fields (MCS), aimed to Elementary School, in which Data Comics (comics whose narrative is data-oriented) is constituted into a text in a process of meaning production. Based upon guidelines established from the fields of Statistical Education, Comics Studies and the MCS, two tasks were produced and applied to a group of four 9th grade Elementary School students. We conducted an epistemological analysis based on the data collected during the application and produced a plausible reading based on the participants' meaning production. The analysis revealed that the tasks: stimulated the production of a diversity of statistical and non-statistical meanings, as well as the production of syntheses; met the recommendation of being familiar and unusual; and allowed the researcher to interact and intervene in the process of meaning production of the subjects. The notion of fabulation in terms of the MCS was proposed based on a process observed repeatedly in the application of the tasks. We observed that the students mobilized arithmetic and comparative thinking during the experience. Reading and reflecting on elements of the comics proved to be relevant during the production of the tasks and subsequent analysis. As an Educational Product associated to this research, a manual was produced for teachers who teach Mathematics and Statistics in Basic Education, as a contribution to their initial and continuing education. This manual contains our conception of teaching and learning Statistics, answers about the role of comics in the Mathematics and Statistics classroom and an update of the tasks used in the research, accompanied by a set of guidelines for teachers.