Teaching and learning Probability through Children’s Literature: a possibility in the early years of Elementary Education

The research on which this article is based was developed within the Graduate Program in Professional Education at the University of Uberaba. The methodology used was qualitative research with a bibliographic study on the teaching of Probability and Children’s Literature. The general objective was to analyze the possibilities of intertwining Children’s Literature and the teaching of Probability through the book The Diary of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, an educational product of the Master’s thesis. The plot explores the daily life of the dinosaur world by integrating concepts, such as possible, impossible, probable, and improbable events that flow in our daily lives. By exploring the teaching of Probability through Children’s Literature, we present a strategy to help students gradually develop different ways of thinking about Mathematics. Therefore, when calculations become increasingly complex, it is believed that understanding Probability concepts will be easier since they were introduced to them in a playful manner.