Probabilidade em ação: Apresentando um jogo de tabuleiro para o ensino de probabilidade nos anos iniciais

Abstract

The objective of this work was to present a board game to help students and teachers in the teaching and learning processes of probability. The game is aimed at the early years of elementary school and contains all the objects of knowledge and skills proposed by the National Common Curricular Base - BNCC, among other important documents that guide the teaching of probability. The game consists of a course and two types of cards: (1) Questions: which are problem situations involving probability contents; (2) Learn more: that bring probabilistic information. For the development of the game, we relied on the iterative design methodology proposed by Eric Zimmerman which is based on a cyclic process of prototyping, testing, analysis and refinement. The game has several elements of randomness in its structure and, therefore, we believe that in addition to bringing children closer to probability, it also has the potential to provide important reflections on probabilistic concepts to a greater or lesser extent, depending on the teacher’s mediation. This work envisages the contribution of games as an auxiliary tool for teaching probability, since when inserted in the school context they can enhance the development of skills and help in the process of learning concepts.