Uso de GeoGebra en la enseñanza de la regla del trapecio para la integración numérica y su incidencia en el rendimiento académico

Abstract

Abstract: Since the Covid 19 pandemic came into our lives, it is undeniable that technology has played a leading role in the resilience of humanity in all areas. Moreover, the educational area together with the labor area are the ones that exerted the most incidence. It can be said that technology broke into the educational area (although it was already present) and stayed there. This research project seeks to take advantage of the innumerable computer applications that exist in our environment, whether free or paid, GeoGebra is a free application that is presented in a very friendly way and provides countless options for users to learn and visualize some somewhat abstract mathematical processes. This research shows the impact on the academic performance of higher level students, for which it sequentially presents processes, mediated by GeoGebra, in which students will be able to perform the trapezoidal rule in numerical integration without the need for pencil and paper. The same that will be applied in a group of students (experimental group) while another group will be taught the class in a traditional way. Subsequently, it will be known if the data received with the initial and final evaluations are represented by the normal distribution, and then the hypotheses will be contrasted through the t-student tests (parametric variables) or U Mann - Whitney (non-parametric variables)