A utilização do livro didático pelo aluno ao estudar integral

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2006

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This paper investigated students use of the text book when learning the mathematical object Integral. Its aim was to map the indications of strategies used by students in order to: 1. situate the proposed theme in the student book; 2.extract the main ideas and the strategies used by the author, summarizing them in a scheme; 3. solve the exercises proposed in the book. It was also the focus of this paper to identify how students delivered their written production - whether they presented linked ideas, through changes in registers of semiotic representation, according to Duvals viewpoint, when referring to learning cognitive aspects. Therefore, a task plan has been created, to be performed by the students of the Undergraduate Mathematics Course of a private institution in Great São Paulo. The participating groups were a second semester group, who have not learned Integral yet, and a fifth semester group, who have already had contact with the concept. A comparative study of the different strategies adopted by each group has been developed. The achieved results revealed that there has been no meaningful difference between the productions of the two groups. The data also revealed that the students performed the tasks with enthusiasm and commitment. The theoretical basis and the book chosen turned out to be efficient tools in the analysis of the protocols. Results showed that the students as a whole could find the theme in the index, performed the required schema, highlighting the topics they judged essential and, while solving the proposed exercises, looked for subsided in the examples and exercises solved in the text, making use of several registers of representation. Although not included in the scope of this investigation, several of the students manifestations suggested the pertinence of reading the text book as a preliminary activity in the mathematical concept of learning

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registro de representação semiótica integral matematica -- livro didatico integral registers conversion educacao matematica text comprehension textbook matematica conversão de registros compreensão de texto matematica -- estudo e ensino livro texto registers of semiotic representation

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