Distribuição normal: uma introdução voltada ao ensino médio por simulações via planilha eletrônica e exercícios interativos

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Osmar Antonio de
• Orientador(a): Coutinho, Cileda de Queiroz e Silva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação Matemática
• Departamento: Educação
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Distribuição normal; Formação de conceitos; Informática na educação estatística; Exercícios interativos; Ensino médio; Educacao matematica; Matematica > Estudo e ensino; Estatistica matematica > Processamento de dados
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Normal distribution; Concept building; Computer sciences in statistics education; Interactive exercises; High school
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::MATEMATICA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11398

The purpose of this study was introducing the content of Normal Distribution to high school students, being an approach proposed, aiming at the interaction of two environments, classroom and computer lab. The study was held with 11 high school students, bearing in mind the presentation of Normal Distribution by data simulation, using an electronic worksheet (Excel). The theoretical referential was based on the Anthropological Theory of the Didactics ATD to accomplish the intended purpose by the researcher: ease the comprehension of the stochastic concepts involving Normal Distribution by the students, by means of experiment simulations, using the electronic worksheet (Excel) and, also, interactive exercises. With this proposal, it was realized that the High School students began to recognize the characteristics and the graphical representation of a Normal Distribution, and from the analyses held in the classroom, it was verified that it was possible to relate the descriptive statistical contents with the probability ones and, this way, the students began to bear a sense of the relation between statistics and probability. Summarizing everything, the use of the electronic worksheet (Excel) with the interactive exercises enabled to guide the students towards the identification of concepts involving Normal Distribution, easing its interaction with the study object. Therefore, the students realized the idea of the existing relation between statistics and probability, which in this essay, was named as stochastic