Statistics and Conscious Consumption: a contextualized didactic proposal for the 9th grade of elementary school
Statistics; Conscious Consumption; Contextualized Tasks; Landscapes of Investigation
This dissertation presents a contextualized didactic proposal for teaching statistics in
the 9th grade of elementary school, focusing on conscious consumption, aligned with
the 12th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of the United Nations: "Ensure
sustainable consumption and production patterns." The main goal is to emphasize the
importance of statistical education to the students being able in reading, interpreting,
constructing tables and graphs, as well as producing written texts using data
communication, in a way to promote statistical literacy, an essential aspect of
statistical education. Aiming the goals, the didactic proposal was structured into two
teaching sequences: one about conscious water consumption and another on the
relationship between consumption and waste production. Based on the proposal of "Landscapes of Investigation," according to Critical Mathematics Education perspective, which encourages students to explore and reflect not only on numbers of a mathematical problem but also on the social, political, and economic issues related to it. The teaching sequences use data coming from the school community itself, which fosters student engagement, since they work with information to their own reality, which also enables the teacher to better understand the students' reality.