NEWTON’S PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA IN A TWENTY FIRST CENTURY CLASSROOM
In this paper we present a didactic activity developed under the Project Based Learning approach. We wanted that our students experienced the way the seventeen-century scientists did calculations without using computers or electronic calculators. The didactic activity involved the use of Lemma V inc...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | México |
| Recursos: | Instituto Politécnico Nacional |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio Digital del IPN |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.repositoriodigital.ipn.mx:123456789/11507 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1050 http://www.repositoriodigital.ipn.mx/handle/123456789/11507 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Project Based Learning Newton’s Principia Mathematica Engineering students didactic activity |
| Resumo: | In this paper we present a didactic activity developed under the Project Based Learning approach. We wanted that our students experienced the way the seventeen-century scientists did calculations without using computers or electronic calculators. The didactic activity involved the use of Lemma V included in Newton’s Principia Mathematica. We discuss our experience applying this activity to Engineering students and a group of in service teachers of high school and university. We also show some results of our students concluding that the main goals stated when we designed the activity were fulfilled. |
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