The concept of mathematical function is one of the most important concepts and not used only in mathematics, but in all the branches of the science. Its study in the superior level is approached in the Mathematical Basic discipline, corresponding to the Curriculum it Bases of all careers, including the career Computer Engineering of UMCC, that’s why it is necessary its correct understanding of the students. Still, when this content is approached in the precedent levels to the superior education, they are remarkable the inadequacies that introduce the students that arrive at this level related to its study, fundamentally what provokes an academic considerable mortality in the first years.
The present diploma work has as main objective to develop an educational software that contributes to the treatment of the function concept in the students of first year of the career Computer Engineering. For the achievement of the objectives it becomes necessary to study the didactic treatment of the function concept as well as the main ones characteristic to keep in mind in the elaboration of an educational software.
As a result an application web was obtained that allows by means of the graphic visualization, to establish relationships between these and the corresponding functions. To the being an online application, allows that students and professors can consent to it use from any laboratory of the university or from any computer that is connected to the university network.
The use of this tool seeks to rise the academic yield of the first year of the students in the subject of Calculation I, with relationship to the solution and graphic representation of functions, motivating the independent study on the part of the students and facilitating the professors work.
For running MathGraph use:
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a webserver like Apache or Nginx with a PHP 5.3 interpreter on it
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a MySQL database created with this script and this settings on the server
user:mathgraphandpassword:mathgraph
MathGraph is licensed under the PHP and Zend licenses except as otherwise noted.
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