Uma ferramenta computacional para ensino-aprendizagem de métodos numéricos

Abstract

The mc toolbox roots is a computational tool to aid the teaching of disciplines that contains numerical methods in the search of the studied functions's roots. The main focus of this tool was the teaching of the discipline of introduction to scienti c computing, where a high failure rate was detected. Created using the constructivist teaching approach, using MATLAB software and the GUI editor, it has a very user-friendly environment. The tool allows the teacher to show how the methods work in practice, leaving aside the traditional teaching mode "chalkboard and chalk"and putting a certain action to get a better motivation of the students. The main functionalities are: graphically visualizing of the method through ani- mations, interacting with the graph by zooming and manual moving and nding approximate roots of several types of equations. With the use of this tool, it is hoped to facilitate the teaching process in the subject of introduction to scienti c computing and gives the student a greater motivation to try to solve the problem of failures.