O Poker como ferramenta de ensino da matemática na educação básica

Abstract

This paper presents a different proposal of application of the main themes of Mathematics in Primary Education in Combinatorics and Probability ones, through the game of poker. With this proposal, our main goal is to use the analysis and the poker game practice as a teaching tool for these topics and Mathematical Expectation. Among the studied authors are included GADELHA, LAPLACE, VYGOTSKY, SKLANSKY, MORGADO, MAGALHÃES and LIMA. Thus, we investigated the structural poker, especially in Texas Hold’em mode, calculating some probabilities and analyzing some situations in which decision making can be guided by the concept of Mathematical Expectation. At the end, we present a pedagogical proposal in order to systematize and facilitate the approach of our subject.