Playful strategies in teaching and learning probabilities in elementary school

Basic education in Ecuador has undergone various changes, becoming one of the main challenges to identify playful strategies that strengthen teaching, mainly about probabilities. The objective was to promote the application of recreational games as a teaching strategy, to improve the learning of probabilities in the applied statistics course in 7th-year basic students of the Fiscomisional Educational Unit "Cinco de Mayo". The research is of a quasi-experimental, applied, and quantitative type, where 84 students of year 7 “A” and “B” collaborated, to whom a knowledge test about probabilities was applied in two different groups, where in the middle of these evaluations only The first group benefited from the recreational games. Thus, significant disparities were found between the two groups. The result was that the application of games as a recreational strategy improves the learning of probabilities, as well as their dimensions.