A matemática por trás do jogo: o impacto e a importância dos dados estatísticos no basquetebol.

Abstract

Statistics is a science that studies the collection, organization, representation, interpretation and analysis of data, providing indispensable tools for several areas of knowledge. And among these areas, sports is one of them, and this work addresses this aspect, more specifically basketball, a sport that has a very extensive range, both in terms of parameters and statistical data. So, the present work that has as its theme "The Mathematics Behind the Game: the impact and importance of statistical data in basketball", which aimed to do a study on the parameters and statistical data generated and applied within basketball and show not only the usefulness, but the importance of Statistics within the matches, either with the analysis of collected data, in the elaboration of game strategies based on this data, in the technical choice of teams and players, or in the decision making about which aspects need to be improved. And, in order to design a didactic proposal with the information obtained, a survey was carried out, through a questionnaire, with mathematics teachers to know a little about the difficulties and challenges of teaching Statistics in the classroom. The methodologies applied for the elaboration of this work were the bibliographic research in books, articles, theses and websites and the field research, but, in this case, using a virtual application, which allowed a greater reach in obtaining the data. At the end, it was verified, through explanations from professionals both in the area of Statistics and in the area of basketball, how relevant is the analysis of statistical data within the sport and, in parallel, a proposal was presented to be applied inside the classroom. classroom, supported by the results obtained through the answers of the consulted teachers.