As ideias centrais do teorema fundamental do cálculo mobilizadas por alunos de licenciatura em matemática

Abstract

The present study relates the results of a qualitative research that aimed to investigate which mental processes may intervene and be combined by students in the development of activities involving the expression = F( x ) = f ( t )dt . The research was based on the study titled Advanced Mathematical Thinking Processes of Tommy Dreyfus. The survey instrument was developed, implemented and analyzed using some phases of Didactic Engineering. The fourteen participants in this study were students of private university s math course in São Paulo city. The analysis of the student s protocols indicates that the following processes were mobilized: visualization, representation and switching representations, intuition, definition, discovery, validation, generalization, abstraction and synthesis. This allowed many students to conjecture that the derivation and integration are inverse operations of each other. The results of the survey explained that a work of this nature contributes greatly to students to take ownership of interrelationships between concepts involved in the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus