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- Wolfram | Alpha: uma ferramenta de aprendizagem ativa em Cálculo IPublication . Conceição, Ana C.; Fernandes, SusanaO motor de conhecimento computacional Wolfram|Alpha, desenvolvido pela Wolfram Research, é uma ferramenta dinâmica e interativa, de acesso livre e manuseamento intuitivo, que explora tópicos de várias áreas do conhecimento. Estas características facilitam a sua utilização no ensino e propiciam a criação de um contexto de aprendizagem ativa em sala de aula. O Wolfram|Alpha foi utilizado, no ano letivo 2013/14, em aulas de Cálculo I, disciplina transversal a diversos cursos de ciências naturais na Universidade do Algarve, com o objetivo de consolidar conteúdos programáticos adquiridos durante o ensino secundário e de tornar mais interessante a aquisição de novos conceitos matemáticos nas áreas do Pré-Cálculo e do Cálculo Diferencial. Com o propósito de recolher e analisar as opiniões dos alunos sobre a importância da utilização do Wolfram|Alpha como instrumento de aprendizagem em Cálculo I foi elaborado um questionário e recolhidas as opiniões dos alunos matriculados na respectiva unidade curricular e que se submeteram à avaliação.
- Proceedings of the II International Congress on Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human SciencesPublication . Jesus, Saul; Pinto, PatríciaInterdisciplinarity is the main topic and the main goal of this conference. Since the sixteen century with the creation of the first Academy of Sciences, in Napoles (Italy) (1568), and before that with the creation of the Fine Arts Academies, the world of science and arts began to work independently, on the contrary of the Academy of Plato, in Classical Antiquity, where science, art and sport went interconnected. Over time, specific sciences began to be independent, and the specificity of sciences caused an increased difficulty in mutual understanding. The same trend has affected the Human and Social Sciences. Each of the specific sciences gave rise to a wide range of particular fields. This has the advantage of allowing the deepening of specialised knowledge, but it means that there is often only a piecemeal approach of the research object, not taking into account its overall complexity. So, it is important to work for a better understanding of the scientific phenomena with the complementarity of the different sciences, in an interdisciplinary perspective. With this growing specialisation of sciences, Interdisciplinarity acquired more relevance for scientists to find more encompassing and useful answers for their research questions. CIEO (Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics) organises this conference, being Interdisciplinarity an important issue.
- Solving second-order linear ordinary differential equations by using interactive softwarePublication . Coelho, Celestino; Marreiros, RuiDifferential equations constitute an area of great theoretical research and applications in several branches of science and technology. The scope of this work is to present new software that is able to show all the steps in the process of solving a linear second-order ordinary differential equation with constant coefficients.