Razonamientos probabilísticos usados por estudiantes de grado 3 en experimentos aleatorios mediados en un Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizaje (AVA)

Abstract

This in-depth study deals with some aspects of the probabilistic reasoning shown and achieved by 3rd grade students of primary education during a sequence of activities of 5 sessions through a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), the study was carried out with 20 children aged 8 to 10 years. In traditional school training "many teachers place excessive emphasis on teaching formulas instead of following current guidelines that recommend project-based work, problem solving and experimentation with random phenomena" (Batanero, Ortiz and Serrano, 2007, p.4), so the present study looked for an alternative to the traditional way to teach the concepts associated with basic probability to children mediated with the use of technology. The integration between mathematics and technology as a possible progress in the teaching processes was represented from the creation of new resources that bring students closer to experimentation and interaction with concepts that can sometimes seem very abstract, for example, in the study they are shown some digital resources that allow to present random experiments of situations in contexts close to the students and included in a VLE, ​​with some recommendations to take into account in the designs and some errors that occurred when taking them to the classroom. Classifications in levels of probabilistic reasoning of the students and their relationships with the activities of the proposed sequence are also shown.