Desenho de um simulador de apoio ao ensino

Abstract

“Softsciences” is the name of a competence center for the production and dissemination of software for teaching/learning and dissemination of basic sciences. This multidisciplinary action was supported by the Ministry of Education of Portugal and, recently, by the Ministry of Science and Technology. One of the activities of "Softsciences" is to create programs adapted to the reality of schools in a curricular and extracurricular scope. "Conicas" is an integral part of this project, whose main objective is to design a graphic environment to support the teaching of conics, taking learning from conics more attractive, easy and pleasant. The present work proposes a solution for a graphic environment for the “Conics” combining new communication technologies, pedagogical and didactic principles. The “Conics software” has an attractive and dynamic interface. It offers the user the possibility to navigate through the four chapters of the work: history, theoretical explanation, practical application and generation of the conics. Depending on the path chosen, the user can obtain theoretical material and history on the cones or the user can observe and interact with the curves formed by the intersection of a cone by a plane. The work was developed based on the "Cross Media Publishing" concept and is available in two means of publication: on CD-Rom and on the Web, to reach a greater number of users and reduce production costs