attention in different institutions all over the world. There are many reasons for this, but it essentially comes down to a fundamental need to prepare the students to be a part of a renewed and more sustainable world. So, it is impor-tant to improve the way of preparing the Engineers of tomorrow to think and build more sustainable Engineering. The authors of this paper are engaged in research and development on this topic in close collaboration within the institutions where they are members of the faculty and know that many re-searchers and companies are involved in similar activities in other institutions.
To support our knowledge community, this work has produced an overview of IL.
Motivated by this research a group of scientific inceptions at the Escola de Engenharia de Minas Gerais- EMGE, School of Engineering located in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil was created that researches Sustainable Cities with the participation of Engineering and computer Sciences students, professors from different institutions (EMGE, SKEMA, LATACI and Seattle University) and pro-fessionals from different fields such as economics, information sciences, busi-ness, journalism and Engineering. It is also important to emphasize that the four institutions involved share a common vision and understanding that inte-grative learning and interdisciplinary innovation are essential components of education in the context of the present and the future world.
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CHAPTER 3
Analysis of The Influence of The
Basic Mathematics Course,
of The Escola Politécnica de
Pernambuco, In The Disapproval
Rate of The Discipline of Integral
and Differential Calculus 1 with
Emphasis on The Teaching
Variables and Students Who
Came from Public Schools
Luciana Cássia Lima da Silva*, Maria Irene Marçal de Moura␄, Matheus Henrique Torres da Silva␞, Eduardo Couto Dinarte␟, José Roberto de Souza Cavalcanti␉and Júlia Maia Batista␏
*Escola Politécnica de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil E-mail: [email protected]
␄Escola Politécnica de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil E-mail: [email protected]
␞Escola Politécnica de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil E-mail: [email protected]
␟Escola Politécnica de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil E-mail: [email protected]
␉Escola Politécnica de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil E-mail: [email protected]
␏Escola Politécnica de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract:It is well known that the transition “High School - University” is not so simple, but in Engineering this change causes extreme difficulty. There are several factors that influence this, being the mainly ones: different profes-sors for the same discipline, the arrival at the University of students coming from public schools and the absence of basic knowledge of the Mathematics discipline. Through this situation, the Escola Politécnica de Pernambuco, in order to reduce the initial difficulties, created the Basic Mathematics Course.
In order to understand the indices of failure in the course of Differential and Integral Calculus 1, the data referring to the first test scores of Calculus 1 of all students were collected to study, since it is similar to all the contents given in the Course , since 2017.1, the different types of professors per class, the grades in the assessments of the Basic Mathematics Course and which students are of “wide competition” and those who came from public school. Out of the information collected, it is analyzed which professors scored the highest failure rate and if they are - or not - part of the Basic Mathematics Course, as well as the failure rate of students who came from public schools and the importance of the Course for them in the first period, comparing both factors with the grades taken by those students in the tests of Basic Mathematics Course. In that pers-pective, we will have data about the importance of the Course for students and the degree of teacher professor interference. Finally, from the analysis per-formed on the classes and professor who had the highest percentage of failure from students, and the quantitative of those who came from public schools with big difficulties, new methodologies are in progress objectifying that the Basic Mathematics Course decreases the rate of disapproval in the mentioned subjects, and increase their Mathematical knowledge, covering, therefore, all the people involved in the process of teaching and learning, facilitating the
student’s life in the first periods of the University.
Keywords:Basic Math, Curricular Gap, Obstacles, Professor, Satisfactory Per-formance.