Elaboración de un software educativo como apoyo para la enseñanza de la asignatura de Matemática I en la Escuela de Ingeniería Ambiental de la Universidad Estatal Amazónica

Abstract

The research focuses on developing an educational software to support teaching of Mathematics I in the Environmental Engineering School at Amazonian State University in Puyo city. Two groups of students were established, an experimental group with 29 students who were exposed to the educational software in their classes and a control group with 31 students as a comparison standard, this group classes were the traditional ones. In order to validate the importance of the educational software in the teaching-learning process of Mathematics I, a pre-test and post-test were applied to the two groups regarding the level of knowledge before and after implementing the software. The applied research methods were the scientific and inductive to follow an orderly plan for obtaining general conclusions from particular observations, the used techniques are supported in the questionnaire survey, through which real and specific data were obtained to draw pictures or statistical graphics for the analysis and interpretation of results for each question, in addition tests were applied for maximum accuracy with the obtained data. The results were dynamic classes with more active, creative, participatory students and teacher – student relationship improvement, encouraging and demonstrating academic achievement, since the experimental group scored an average of 14.1 points and 72.4% passed, against 10.1 points for the control group with only 51.4% passed. It is concluded that the improvement on the grades using the educational software is probably significant, for this reason it is recommended to teachers to guide, motivate and energize the use of the educational software, making sure that students assimilate and understand the functions of the real variable.