Investigating the production of meanings in Differential and Integral Calculus ; Investigar la producción de significados en Cálculo Diferencial e Integral ; Investigando a produção de significados em Cálculo Diferencial e Integral

The concern of professors working in various areas of higher education is notorious about the increasing failure rates in subjects that require competences and mathematical skills. One of these disciplines is the Differential and Integral Calculus, present not only in the Mathematics Course, but also in undergraduate courses related to Nature Sciences, Economic Sciences and almost all Engineering courses. The present work aimed to investigate which meanings the students of the mathematics and production engineering courses of a higher education institution in the city of Ituiutaba/MG, attribute some concepts about the discipline differential calculus and Full. This proposal was analyzed through the application of work sheets to students, elaborated with questions that promoted the survey/discussion of some ideas that circulate in the knowledge that involves the calculation. After this stage, three categories were raised, related to the semantic level produced by the undergraduate students and their relationships, prioritizing the concepts of functions, continuity, limits and derivative. The investigation pointed out that students carry in their discourse meanings similar to the language of the books texts of the Discipline of calculus and can not pro- duce their own meanings. It is hoped, with this investigation, to contribute to a discussion about the teaching of calculus, in the search to point out possibilities of solution for evasion/disapproval in the discipline, promoting a critical, reflective and active education in the Higher education scenario. ; La preocupación de los profesores que trabajan en varias áreas de la educación superior es notoria por las crecientes tasas de reprobación en las disciplinas que requieren competencias y habilidades matemáticas. Una de estas disciplinas es el Cálculo Diferencial e Integral, presente no solo en el Curso de Matemáticas, sino también en cursos de pregrado relacionados con Ciencias de la Naturaleza, Ciencias Económicas y casi todos los cursos de Ingeniería. El ...