Dificuldades encontradas por alunos do 9º ano para resolver problemas envolvendo leitura e interpretação de gráficos

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the difficulties encountered by students in the 9th grade of elementary school in solving activities involving reading and interpreting graphs. It was a qualitative-descriptive case study, carried out at the State School of Elementary Education, Santos Dumont and brought together sixty 9th grade students. The data analysis and interpretation procedure was that of content analysis. This revealed difficulties in the process of reading and interpreting graphics; difficulties related to the type of graph used in the representation of the data. The success in this activity was shown to be conditioned to the way the data is exposed. The study also revealed that there are difficulties in the registration mobilization process required in the proposed activities.