Uma investigação do conhecimento do aluno em relação a questões que envolvem estatística

Abstract

The present work comes to present the results of an investigation into a state school of elementary and high school in the town ofBayeux - PB, whose aim was to analyze the students' knowledge with regard to the resolution of issues involving the content extracted Statistics evidence of Mathematics Olympics Public Schools (OBMEP) and the National Secondary Education Examination (ENEM). The methodology used to achieve the objectives of the research; the procedures were the literature and the case study. As to the objectives, the research was characterized as exploratory and how to approach the problem of method was qualitative and quantitative Already the instrument used in the collection of research data was a questionnaire diagnostic containing 7 (seven) closed questions and 4 four open questions of OBMEP databaseand 3 (three) withdrawals of proof of ENEM, all content-related statistics. The sample size was 38 students of two classes of the 3rd year of regular high school. Regarding the findings it was found that the students have a great deficiency in relation to the study of statistics, given that they have performed well below expectations.