A pathway to probabilistic language development towards the end of the early elementary school.
We consider that the study of probabilistic concepts from the early years is essential to the child's education, since in the current world, daily, we receive a large amount of information, including the need to understand random or non-random phenomena. In addition, according to the National Common Curricular Base - BNCC (BRAZIL, 2018), the formation of probabilistic concepts should be encouraged since the early years of Elementary School. Therefore, in this study we will focus on describing and analyzing how linguistic elements emerge in the probability teaching and learning process, understood as a precise and specialized language and supported by Vásquez and Alsina (2017), Vásquez (2018) and in the developed teaching program by Nunes et al. (2012). For this, we will conduct an exploratory study with students in the fifth year of elementary school (about 10-11 years old) who have received some type of prior instruction on the subject. Specifically, the multiplicity of terms, oral and written expressions, symbols and representations used when it is intended that students learn the concept gradually and acquire the respective basic concepts in probability. We hope that the results show the predominance of words and verbal expressions of the common language mainly related to the intuitive meaning of probability. According to the National Common Curricular Base - BNCC, in Brazil, the formation of concepts of a probabilistic nature must be stimulated since the initial years of Elementary School. In this study we will describe and analyze how linguistic elements emerge in the process of teaching and learning probability, understood as a precise and specialized language. For this, we will conduct an exploratory study with students in the fifth year of elementary school (about 10-11 years old) who have received some type of prior instruction on the subject. Through ontosemiotic analysis, we will seek to identify and explain the multiplicity of terms, oral and written expressions, symbols and representations used when it is intended that students learn the concept gradually and acquire the respective basic concepts in probability. We hope that the results show the predominance of words and verbal expressions of the common language mainly related to the intuitive meaning of probability.