A POSSIBLE ARTICULATION BETWEEN COMPUTATIONAL THINKING AND STATISTICAL EDUCATION: AN EXPERIENCE REPORT.

Abstract

“Mathematics is in everything!” Answers like this are usually said by different people who enjoy Mathematics and are usually just phrases said without any proper basis. When we thought about this, the question arose: how can we work on the issue of food waste in a school, raise awareness among students and teach Mathematics? With this work, we aim to discuss the issue of food waste, raise awareness among students and teach Mathematics. To this end, we used data relating to daily food waste in a school, working together with students to interpret this data, through computational and statistical concepts. Furthermore, it is known that, in the connected world in which we live, computational thinking is of paramount importance, not only for learning to program, but also for obtaining a more comprehensive understanding of the world in which we live. It is important to emphasize that thinking computationally is not just teaching how to program, but rather, how to interpret, analyze and abstract the concatenation of ideas from the simplest to the most elaborate. The importance of teaching statistical education is highlighted, as in contemporary society, a person who cannot interpret data from tables and graphs has difficulty understanding the functioning and organization of the information they receive. In other words, this field of knowledge contributes to the student's civic education, in addition to enabling them to understand real-world problems and letting them choose their own strategies to solve them.