American Review of Mathematics and Statistics

Statistical Training of Pre-Service Teachers with Application in School Practice
Miriam Cardoso Utsumi, Irene M. Cazorla, Verônica Yumi Kataoka

Abstract
This paper discusses the way that actions developed under a programme (PIBID – Scholarship Program for Pre-service Teacher) from the Brazilian government can contribute to the learning of teaching, by considering four pre-service mathematics teachers (undergraduate students), from the university in São Paulo, who participated in a training activity using Didactical Sequences (DS) of Statistics, and then applied these to students in their 6th to 9th years of schooling. In general, the experiment in school was evaluated positively, due to the active participation of the students – capable students took responsibility for helping the weak students, lazy students were stimulated to work – and because most students were able to make sense of the tables and graphs, and learned to compute the mean, the median, mode for much grouped data. It is considered that programme has provided training times to pre-service mathematics teachers, who learn the necessary concepts for teaching, as well as how to prepare and execute activities in the classroom with the guidance and under the supervision of professors and teachers. Therefore, those activities provide security for pre-service teachers in their teacher training.

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