Teaching ideas and activities for classroom: integrating technology into the pedagogy of integral calculus and the approximation of definite integrals
-
Gunhan Caglayan [1]
-
[1] New Jersey City University
New Jersey City University
Jersey City, Estados Unidos
-
- Localización: International journal of mathematical education in science and technology, ISSN 0020-739X, Vol. 47, Nº. 8, 2016, págs. 1261-1279
- Idioma: inglés
- DOI: 10.1080/0020739x.2016.1176261
- Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
-
Resumen
The purpose of this article is to offer teaching ideas in the treatment of the definite integral concept and the Riemann sums in a technology-supported environment. Specifically, the article offers teaching ideas and activities for classroom for the numerical methods of approximating a definite integral via left- and right-hand Riemann sums, along with midpoint and trapezoidal Riemann sums. The activities demonstrate innovative and creative ways of integrating technology, in particular, GeoGebra dynamic software, into the pedagogy of college-level integral calculus. It also provides, among other things, interesting and original teaching ideas incorporating technology, and an evaluation of these activities by the students themselves who experienced these activities with the GeoGebra dynamic software.
