The Expedition

LeME has the premise that a person, in order to be considered statistically literate, must have globally recognized requirements, such as: understanding why data is needed and how it can be produced; familiarity with concepts and basic ideas related to descriptive statistics and graphical and tabular presentations; understand how the inferential process is achieved. At the core, LeME contemplates the development of Learning Projects [PA] for the promotion of Statistical Literacy. However, it is dynamically reconstituted from a diversity of elements. These are proposed by an itinerant and interdisciplinary team of undergraduate and postgraduate students - with the guidance of the same coordinator teacher - who idelises LeME, as well as the dialogic interaction with the community of children and young people benefited. The elements that confer this plurality to the LeME are the activities proposed by this interdisciplinary team, based on Statistics, Education, Psychology and Technology references. Although LeME contemplates a diversity of activities, maintains, as a predominant pedagogical strategy, the PA. Through the Learning Projects, children and young people define the theme they wish to research; define the population of the sample to be investigated; develop data collection tools; take on the role of researchers and collect data of their own interest; organize this data, either manually or by using technologies; perform the Statistics; obtain the results and socialize them with the LeME participating school, community or group, through the LeMEcional Journal or Statistical Posters, which may compete for the International Poster Competition - ISLP.

NOTE: LeME can be developed with different duration times. Predominantly, the duration of a LeME is 20 hours, however it can be simplified, or extended, depending on the availability.