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The present paper aims to discuss characteristics of Youth and Adult Education in Brazil and, specifically, how combinatorial and probabilistic reasoning may be developed as means of social justice. We argue that gradual teaching of combinatorial and probabilistic concepts, use of different representations and strategies of problem solving regarding to these areas of mathematics, and also perception of the relations between them, are essential to the development of these forms of reasoning and must occur since early schooling years. Therefore, Youth and Adult Education students have the right to be in contact with combinatorics and probability, in order to be able to solve school and everyday problems that involve the knowledge of non-deterministic situations and the search of possibilities. |
