Uso de tutoriales multimedia como complemento pedagógico para la enseñanza de funciones de variable real en educación media

Abstract

A tutorial multimedia was developed as a pedagogic complement for teaching-learning of functions in real variables with students at the Educational Unit “Isabel de Godin”. After the face to face class, in the schedule of pedagogic recovery, the tutorial was used to reinforce the knowlegde adquired in the classroom, the same work was done at home, these activities were performed during a trimester to determine the incidence that has the use of it. The research hypothesis was tested in eleventh grade students population, the sample consisted of 144, 72 in the control group and the last from the experimental, chosen at random. The statistic for the hypothesis test was applied, with a confidence level of 95%, the first group scored an average of 6.13 and the second one 8.01 on 10 points. From the analysis, it was confirmed that the technique used improved significantly the academic performance of students, these scores achieved the learning “master and reach”, in the range from 7 to 10. It is suggested that teachers use multimedia tutorials to increase the teaching of Mathematics and achieve everlasting and self learnings.