Banca de DEFESA: SARAH JANE SOUZA DA SILVA

MATHEMATICAL MODELING APPLIED TO PRODUCTION ENGINEERING: PEDAGOGICAL PROPOSAL FOR TEACHING MATHEMATICS IN HIGH SCHOOL

Mathematical Modeling. Teaching Methodology. Mathematical Tools. Production engineering. Teaching Learning

Nowadays, mathematics is present directly and indirectly in our daily lives.
and even so, teaching mathematics is a challenge, as it is known that
Students have learning difficulties when it comes to this subject.
Therefore, working on mathematics through modeling would provide students with
students a better understanding of mathematical content, as we would be
showing these students that mathematics is in everything, as well as, we can
represent real problems through mathematical models leaving abstraction.
We believe that questions related to this topic are very relevant, as it is
necessary to analyze and reflect on the benefits that the incorporation of new
tools can bring to education, mainly considering the scenario
current situation and the educational needs brought about by the “technological age”. All these
changes in educational paradigms bring great challenges to our
educational system, as it requires individuals increasingly prepared to deal with
the problems of modern society. To meet the current need,
Firstly, we need to rethink our pedagogical practice and innovate
methodologies so that teaching has an educational process as a way of
bring the object of study closer to the students’ reality.
In this way, this project
aims to present high school students at the Federal Institute of
Santa Catarina (IFSC) - Câmpus Caçador the use of mathematical modeling
as a tool for teaching and learning this subject, which for many
is quite complex. We will represent some real problems in the area of activity
of the Production Engineer using mathematical models to control the
stock and optimize the process, generating more in less time. During the
During the development of this project, data was collected from some
companies in the city of Caçador where some higher education students from
Câmpus Caçador Production Engineering works, then we organize
these data and use mathematical models to represent them, then
These higher education student works were presented to students at the
high school through lectures, in addition to the application of two forms before and
after the presentations. During the presentations, the
definitions of mathematical modeling, its stages and the difficulties encountered
at the time of application, as a way of helping students in the development
of mathematical language, as well as awakening their curiosity, providing
self-confidence and initiative in the search for knowledge. Considering the
development of this project and the results obtained we have the objective of
study was achieved