Dynamic and interactive tools to support teaching and learning

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Autor(a) principal: Conceição, Ana C.
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/17618
Resumo: The use of technological learning tools has been increasingly recognized as a useful tool to promote students’ motivation to deal with, and understand, mathematics concepts. Current digital technology allows students to work interactively with a large number and variety of graphics, complementing the theoretical results and often used paper and pencil calculations. The computer algebra system <i>Mathematica</i> is a very powerful software that allows the implementation of many interactive visual applications. The main goal of this work is to show how some new dynamic and interactive tools, created with <i>Mathematica</i> and available in the Computable Document Format (CDF), can be used as active learning tools to promote better student activity and engagement in the learning process. The CDF format allows anyone with a computer to use them, at no cost, even without an active Wolfram <i>Mathematica</i> license. Besides that, the presented tools are very intuitive to use which makes it suitable for less experienced users. Some tools applicable to several mathematics concepts taught in higher education will be presented. This kind of tools can be used either in a remote or classroom learning environment. The corresponding CDF files are made available as supplement of the online edition of this article.
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title Dynamic and interactive tools to support teaching and learning
spellingShingle Dynamic and interactive tools to support teaching and learning
Conceição, Ana C.
Dynamic tools
Interactive tools
Wolfram Mathematica
Computable Document Format
title_short Dynamic and interactive tools to support teaching and learning
title_full Dynamic and interactive tools to support teaching and learning
title_fullStr Dynamic and interactive tools to support teaching and learning
title_full_unstemmed Dynamic and interactive tools to support teaching and learning
title_sort Dynamic and interactive tools to support teaching and learning
author Conceição, Ana C.
author_facet Conceição, Ana C.
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Conceição, Ana C.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Dynamic tools
Interactive tools
Wolfram Mathematica
Computable Document Format
topic Dynamic tools
Interactive tools
Wolfram Mathematica
Computable Document Format
description The use of technological learning tools has been increasingly recognized as a useful tool to promote students’ motivation to deal with, and understand, mathematics concepts. Current digital technology allows students to work interactively with a large number and variety of graphics, complementing the theoretical results and often used paper and pencil calculations. The computer algebra system <i>Mathematica</i> is a very powerful software that allows the implementation of many interactive visual applications. The main goal of this work is to show how some new dynamic and interactive tools, created with <i>Mathematica</i> and available in the Computable Document Format (CDF), can be used as active learning tools to promote better student activity and engagement in the learning process. The CDF format allows anyone with a computer to use them, at no cost, even without an active Wolfram <i>Mathematica</i> license. Besides that, the presented tools are very intuitive to use which makes it suitable for less experienced users. Some tools applicable to several mathematics concepts taught in higher education will be presented. This kind of tools can be used either in a remote or classroom learning environment. The corresponding CDF files are made available as supplement of the online edition of this article.
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