LeMe as a motivating and playful agent in the teaching of statistics in elementary education

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate, through a focus group with graduate teachers from the Statistical Multimedia Literacy Program - LEME, the possible contributions of Statistics to the playful and motivating experiences of young people from the 6th to the 9th years of Elementary School. Qualitative methodology was adopted, through a focus group composed of 12 undergraduate students from a university in southern Brazil, who acted as teachers in the program. The corpus of analysis of the paper was composed by the transcript of this focus group, which was submitted to the Discourse of the Collective Subject - DSC. The analyzes revealed that LeME is a playful and motivating agent, as its activities and class development encompassed the following playful-motivational factors: teacher/student approach; innovation; interest; student context; construction of knowledge autonomously; happiness and fun.