Open AccessMobile Computing as a Support to Teach the Concept of Function
Author(s) -
Elena Fabiola Ruiz Ledesma,
Jesús García Díaz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of systems applications, engineering and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2074-1308
DOI - 10.46300/91015.2021.15.22
Subject(s) - computer science , function (biology) , constructivism (international relations) , mobile device , process (computing) , mathematics education , multimedia , human–computer interaction , mathematics , world wide web , international relations , evolutionary biology , politics , political science , law , biology , operating system
We make a proposal to teach the concept of function using mobile computing. This proposal is based on research that has support in education theories such as Constructivism and Problem Solving Learning. In the first part we show the difficulties that undergraduate Computer Science students have in the first semester of Engineering while working with that mathematical concept. And application to be used by the students anywhere and anytime in mobile devices is designed that process data and is intended to show them the concept of function in a problem solving situation. The proposed activities are part of the education methodology used in the research and within this paper we show the diagnostic questionnaire as one of the methodological tools and its results supporting the designed activities and its application to mobile devices