The equivalence of stimuli contributing to the teaching of statistics in the early elementary School
Over the years, several researches have been developed to find new teaching methods that facilitate learning and promote students' logical and creative development. Educators generally find it difficult for students to learn mathematical concepts, as is the case with statistics, and also considering that the diagnostic evaluations point to an urgent need for the development of new teaching methodologies that will increase students' acquisition of this content . And, researchers in the behavioral approach have taught mathematical repertoires based on the stimulus equivalence paradigm. Thus, in order to bring contributions to the teaching and learning process of statistics, this research intends to bring contributions to the teaching of Statistics of students from the initial years Primary Education. we started from the National Curricular Common Base - BNCC for Elementary School for the development of curricular units of education to develop and fix the statistical content of the 1st year to the 5th year of Elementary School. We will take as a methodological basis the Stimulus Equivalence, providing operational, empirically verifiable criteria for specifying behaviors with symbolic characteristics. Stimulus Equivalence is a theoretical model that allows to predict that for an individual a stimulus will belong to a class of equivalent stimuli in which they are substitutable for each other, from arbitrarily established conditional relations between him and one or a few members of this class. The use of Stimulus Equivalence in its data collection will be composed of the following research phases: (a) pre-test; (b) teaching and testing conditional discrimination; (c) post-test. The present study intends to examine the response given the absence of response according to the equivalence of stimuli, considering an LS training structure (linear series) and the simple training protocol for complex, in order to increase the participants' chances exhibit stimulus equivalence.