Active Methodologies for Calculus in Engineering Courses (December 2016)

This paper describes activities based in active methodologies conducted during calculus lessons. The objective of these activities was to insert the technical content in the routine of the students, which helps to associate the subject with the concept and allows the students to make their own contributions and reach higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. A project was created and applied on two different groups over two semesters. In the first group, identified as T1, the activities were applied during both semesters (in the disciplines of Fundamentals of Mathematics and Calculus I). The second group, identified as T2, received the activities only in the second semester, in the discipline of Calculus I. Using the observations and evaluations from the groups T1 and T2 during the second semester (Calculus I), it was possible to analyze and to compare quantitatively the development of the students and to evaluate the experience from the professor's point of view.