Utilización de mapas mentales en el estudio de ecuaciones diferenciales y su incidencia en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de Análisis Matemático III de la Escuela de Ingeniería Automotriz, Facultad de Mecánica de la ESPOCH

Abstract

The mind map use incidence in the differential equation study for the students' academic yield of mathematical analysis III at the Automotive Engineering School, Mechanical Engineering School of ESPOCH was determined in this investigation. It was carried out from October 2014 to February 2015. Two groups were studied: an experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught DE and mind maps whereas the control one was only taught DE. Ordinary differential equations (ODE) with separate variable which can be reduced to be exact were the topics to be studied. A pre-test and test were done to verify differential equation mind map learning. This study allowed students to learn about differential equations, their form and solution procedure developing creativity, classification and concept generalization. Besides, the topics requiring more study were identified. FreeMind software was used. The students' acceptance to this technique was 4.46/5 (Likert scale). From the DE yield evaluation, the control group got an average of 4.26/8, and the experimental group got 6.05/8. T of student was used for the comparison. A value of 111 = 5.068 got gotten. It was observed that there was a significant positive difference in the yield of students using the mind map technique. It is recommend that both teachers and students use mind maps when learning and teaching.