Criação de aplicativo para dispositivos móveis e sua utilização como recurso didático em aulas de Geometria Analítica

Abstract

There are several factors that hinder the work development of mathematics teachers in basic education. Among them is the inappropriate use of smartphones / tablets for students, among the academic activities. These mobile devices, for their variety of prices are available for everyone, and because of that they are present in almost all parts of the day. Smartphones / tablets today have thousands of applications for many different uses, no matter the operational system they use. On the other hand, in the educational field, these devices are not yet part of the classroom routine productively; on the opposite, are elements of distraction to the students. In an attempt to take advantage of this feature as a pedagogical tool for the teaching of math, taking advantage of the presence of the students equipments in classes, came the proposal to create and use an application called AGA, which runs on the Android operating system, for the use in classes that addressed primary topics of analytic geometry, such as marking points in the Cartesian point and distance between points on the plane. It is important to highlight that among the available operating systems, Android dominates the smartphone / tablet market. The building application for this research was developed through an integrated development environment MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). It is a simple and interactive way to build applications for the Android operating system for mobile devices. The use of the application in mathematics lessons took place in a class of the third year of high school in a state school, located in Seropédica City. For the assessment of the experiment, they were applied in the research group, tests before and after the activities, addressing the working content and motivation to study mathematics. Such tests allowed the analysis of the impact of the work developed in class and efficiency of the construction and use of the AGA.