Ensino de matemática à distância: uma experiência com o ensino de probabilidade

Abstract

The distance education (EAD), supported by information technologies, especially the computer and virtual learning environments, allows numerous advances in educational standpoint. In this context, this work presents an instructional design of a course in Probability, totally distance that will be used as support for the classroom of a class of 3rd year of high school. In order to verify the quality and consistency of proposed activities in the course, the course was applied parallel to the work of the classroom teacher, having a feature to extend or retrieve studies. Was this made, with the students of the course, qualitative and quantitative research, funded by a standard questionnaire used own Virtual Environment, Moodle. Then, through the development of this study, it was observed that many features of the EAD when used in classroom teaching can contribute to improved student achievement, considering that with the resources the activities in that course and other modality to distance are much more appropriate to the profile of today's students.