The aim of this thesis is to create a web portal dedicated to teaching of a topic of high school mathematics - Functions. The work contains sections focusing on creating didactic teaching materials, inclusion of ICT in teaching mathematics and sections dedicated to the creation of new www learning portal. It also discusses the dynamic mathematics software, GeoGebra, which is extensively used in this portal. The work is boosted by two studies which measure the suitability of the project for the purposes of teaching mathematics on secondary schools. Research was focused on teachers and high school pupils. The results and conclusions of the research part of the thesis point out how to modify the material, adapt it and thus make it more suitable for educational purposes. Keywords www project, teaching of mathematics, functions, GeoGebra

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:58:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 eugenio.pdf: 984600 bytes, checksum: e418bb88c201ea98edc58db64ac89cd4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001-11-06 / The purpose of this work is to study the process by which students following a university-level course in the exact sciences acquire/construct the notion of average rate of change. An understanding of this notion could assist students in interpreting the meaning of the derivative as the average rate of change of a point. A didactic sequence was elaborated, inspired by Vergnaud (1994), who considers that the teaching and learning of mathematical notions and concepts should be approached by an exploration of problems, that is, by developing problem situations which favour new conceptualisations in their resolution. Eighteen pairs of students from a first year chemistry course worked on the sequence which lasted 1.440 minutes. The results indicated that the students advanced their understandings of average rate of change, as well as their ability to interpret graphs, for example, identifying intervals in which the function increases or decreases and describing the meaning of points where the function intersects the axes of the graph / Este trabalho tem por objetivo estudar o processo de aquisição/construção da noção de taxa de variação média de uma função, por alunos que ingressaram em um curso superior na área de exatas. A compreensão dessa noção pode favorecer a interpretação do significado da derivada como taxa de variação num ponto. Para tanto, foi elaborada uma seqüência didática inspirada nas concepções de Vergnaud (1994), que considera que o processo de ensino e aprendizagem de noções e conceitos matemáticos devem ser abordados mediante a exploração de problemas, ou seja, de situações em que os alunos precisem desenvolver algum tipo de estratégia para resolvê-las. Essa seqüência foi desenvolvida por 18 duplas de alunos do 1° ano de um curso de Química, ao longo de 1.440 minutos. Os resultados obtidos revelam que houve bom aproveitamento destes alunos na construção da taxa de variação média e também no desenvolvimento de competências para a interpretação de gráficos, como a identificação de intervalos de crescimento e decrescimento e na atribuição de significados aos pontos de intersecção com os eixos coordenados