Aplicación de software matemático interactivo a la enseñanza del tema de Triángulos de la Geometría Plana, como una herramienta de trabajo que le permita al Docente facilitar y mejorar el proceso educativo de los estudiantes, de acuerdo al programa de asignatura de Nivelación de la Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE-EL

Abstract

The investigation has the aim to help the leveling students belonging to the University of the Armed Forces – Polytechnic School of the Army -, Extension Latacunga, in function that these achieve the meaningful learning in the topic: triangles by using a geometric adequate software. This motivated the development and implementing of this work, selecting with all the teacher staff of Mathematics, to the GeoGebra as the geometric software more pertinent for the teaching and learning process. The teacher found in GeoGebra, a mediator of the teaching and learning that will help in the systematization of the educational process in a pertinent way. For the student, the utility that finds it is a motivating form to build their own learning in a pragmatic form. The methodology of work was based in the election of two groups of students: one of control and the other of experimentation with identical number of students. A monitoring of the psychomotor performance of both groups was made, and finally the reductive numeric statistical academic performance of both groups was compared. Two techniques were used for the result interpretation: Chi-square for non-parametric statistics and normalized Z for parametric statistics. The efficiency of the experimental group was better in a 17% than the control group, according to the hypothesis test with the Z normalized.

It is concluded that the methodological application GeoGebra propitiates conveniently the learning of Geometry and improves the performance of students. It is recommended the development of similar proposals for all the topics of Geometry and other subjects, by focusing in improving the interface of the tool.