This work compares and evaluates several math's textbooks for secondary school where we can find schoolwork from plane geometry. The aim of this work is drawing the main advantages and disadvantages of those textbooks, evaluating whether all textbooks contain themes which are required by School Curriculum and interpretation of a questionnaire survey among teachers of mathematics. In the last chapter, it is described how a new ideal textbook of plane geometry wouldlook like. Those were taken on the grounds of gained information from my questionnaire survey. Themes which cannot be found in compared textbooks for secondary schools are a part of recently made textbook since it is not necessary to know any new terms for their understanding. Key words: geometry, teaching geometry, textbooks, polygon, circle

This master's thesis explores the possibility of including Taxicab metric as a subject matter into instruction at lower secondary level of education and it does so in several ways. Firstly, it looks into a curricular document of state level (Framework Educational Programme) and discusses instances at which the subject matter and the concept of lower secondary education are in agreement. Secondly, this thesis analyses a selected series of textbooks with respect to exercises that can be seen as linked to non-Euclidean metrics. Furthermore an experiment is described and evaluated, whose purpose, as a part of this thesis, was to find out if selected pupils can successfully solve problems in the context of the Taxicab metric and if related instruction influenced pupils' understanding of the concept of line segment and circle in a desired way. The teaching material which constituted an integral part of the experiment is presented as well.

The aim of this Bachelor thesis and Minor Field Study is, from the perspective of the Vietnamese children at The General Science Library in Ho Chi Minh City, to obtain a deeper understanding of the ways in which the reading environment of The Children's Room supports children's interest in reading and their reading experience. It is assumed that reading is a dynamic and social activity made possible by internal and external conditions. In this context limited freedom of expression is one of the external conditions that is taken into consideration. In order to obtain understanding of Vietnamese children's experiences of reading, I used Aidan Chambers' model of The Reading Circle as a theoretical framework. The methods used in this study were semi-structured interviews with Vietnamese young people at the library, four girls and five boys, aged between 10 and 15 years. The children in this study describe two types of reading experiences: 1) reading that gives feelings of excitement and joy, and makes them want to reread a book, talk about it with others, think of it, remember and analyse it. And 2) reading they describe as developing, either spiritually or intellectually, a form of reading for improvement. Four reading environments are identified that both enable and obstruct reading experiences, their homes, school, library and the bookstore. Primarily, The Children's Room enables reading.

Orientador: Renata Zotin Gomes de Oliveira / Resumo: Este trabalho concentra-se no estudo do comportamento elástico de materiais através da análise das matrizes de rigidez e flexibilidade de estruturas elementares. Baseado em conceitos da disciplina Resistência dos Materiais e nas propriedades elásticas dos materiais são apresentadas e demonstradas relações matemáticas que refletem as associações entre as tensões normais e de cisalhamento atuantes e as deformações e distorções decorrentes. Essas relações são ilustradas computacionalmente, através do software Geogebra. Transformações de coordenadas possibilitam a determinação de tensões em planos diferentes dos originais de forma analítica ou gráfica. Estes conceitos são aplicados a materiais compósitos ortotrópicos sujeitos a carregamento plano, configuração característica de uma lâmina de material compósito empregada em estruturas mais complexas, possibilitando a determinação das propriedades elásticas de uma lâmina em direções diferentes das chamadas direções principais, alinhadas ou ortogonais à direção das fibras. / Abstract: This essay focuses on the study of the elastic behavior of materials through the analysis of the stiffness and flexibility matrices of elementary structures. Based on the concepts of the Material Resistance discipline and the elastic properties of the materials, mathematical relationships are presented and demonstrated that reflect the associations between the acting normal and shear stresses and the resulting deformations and distortions. These relationships are computationally illustrated through Geogebra software. Coordinate transformations allow the determination of stresses in different planes of the originals in an analytical or graphical way. These concepts are applied to orthotropic composites subjected to flat loading, characteristic configuration of a composite material blade used in more complex structures, making it possible to determine the elastic properties of a blade in different directions of the so-called main directions, aligned or orthogonal to the direction of the fibers. / Mestre

Orientador: Gisele Maria Schwartz / Banca: Carmem Maria Aguiar / Banca: Yara Aparecida Couto / Resumo: Esse estudo teve como objetivo identificar quais as matrizes presentes nas danças indígenas que aparecem nas danças circulares na contemporaneidade. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza qualitativa, envolvendo uma pesquisa exploratória, desenvolvida por meio de entrevista estruturada, aplicada a uma amostra intencional constituída por 13 sujeitos adultos, de ambos os sexos, com faixas etárias variadas, integrantes da Aldeia do Aguapeú, os quais encontravam-se diretamente envolvidos com os rituais de danças indígenas na população Guarani M'Bya, Município de Mongaguá, SP. Os dados foram analisados descritivamente, utilizando-se a Técnica de Análise de Conteúdo Temático. Os resultados indicam que os Cantos e as danças sagradas são considerados comuns a todas as cerimônias celebrativas indígenas, independente de datas especiais. Os rituais das danças, quando vivenciadas na opy, são como forma de conexão com os Deuses e, do lado de fora da opy, têm o intuito de reunir a comunidade para vivenciar a diversão. Isso demonstra que essas danças inserem-se, tanto nos contextos do sagrado, como no profano, evidenciado no campo do lazer. As danças executadas na comunidade foram: dança Xondaro e dança de Terreiro vivenciadas em círculo. A dança Xondaro é praticada apenas pelo sexo masculino, num contexto de luta semelhante ao da capoeira, com treinamento específico, cujo objetivo é os indígenas permanecerem mais fortes, tanto fisicamente como espiritualmente, além de protegerem a si próprios e à opy. A dança do Terreiro, em círculo, é praticada anteriormente a qualquer apresentação na opy, durante todas às noites, conduzida pelo Pajé, na forma de oração a Nhanderú. As danças indígenas praticadas em circulo preservam importantes experiências com relação aos aspectos simbólicos, bem como, a expressão do sagrado, aspectos que também são identificados... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This study aimed to identifying which of the present matrices in the indian dances that appear in the contemporary circle dances. This qualitative study involved an exploratory research developed through a structured interview, applied to an intentional sample consisted of 13 adult of both sexes, different age groups, members of the Aldeia do Aguapeú, which were directly involved with the rituals of Indian dances in the Guarani population M'Bya, Mongaguá, SP. Data were descriptively analyzed, using Thematic Content Analysis Technique. The results indicate that the songs and sacred dances are considered common to all the commemorative ceremonies, regardless specific dates. The ritual dances, when experienced in opy represent a way of connecting with the Gods and, outside of opy they promote gathering of the community to pleasant experiences. This demonstrates that these dances fall in both contexts the sacred and the profane, evidenced in the field of leisure. The dances which were performed in the community were Xondaro dance and Terreiro dance, both danced in a circle. The Xondaro dance is practiced only by males, in a context of struggle similar to Capoeira, with specific training, whose purpose is that the Indians becoming stronger, both physically and spiritually, and protect themselves and opy. The Terreiro dance was practiced in a circle prior to any presentation at opy during every evening, led by the Shaman in the form of prayer to Nhanderu. The Indian dances practiced in a circle preserve important experiences regording the symbolical aspects, like the sacred expression, aspects that are identifieds in the circle dances. Therefore, it was evident that those dances preserve some characteristics of the Indian dances, considering that the circular of those dances is associated with a ritualization / Mestre

No presente trabalho consideramos homeomorfismos do círculo sem pontos periódicos e com o mesmo número finito de pontos críticos todos de tipo non-flat. Provamos que se existe uma conjugação topológica entre dois destes mapas que leva ponto crítico em ponto crítico, sem necessidade de preservar criticalidades, então dita conjugação é uma transformação quase-simétrica com distorção quase-simétrica local uniformemente limitada. Estes resultados são válidos para qualquer número de rotação irracional e são independentes da natureza das criticalidades dos pontos críticos, de modo que nossos resultados são válidos para toda criticalidade real. / In this work we consider circle homeomorphisms without periodic points and with finite number of critical points all of them being non-flat. We prove that if there exists a topological conjugacy between two of those maps which sends critical point into critical point, which not necessarily preserve criticalities, then this conjugacy is a quasi-symmetric map with quasi-symmetric distortion universally bounded. All these results are valid for any irrational rotation number and are independent of the nature of the criticalities, therefore our results are valid for all real criticalities.

A pesquisa utiliza a Cena Contemporânea (2011-2013) e o jogo do Círculo Neutro como anteparos para os processos de preparação e criação do ator. Primeiro, procura refletir sobre os ambientes formativos, relacionando as proposições de Agamben sobre o \"ser qualquer [e o] assim, irreparável\" (1993), com as de Bauman sobre \"comunidade, segurança, liberdade e estrangeiro\" (2003). Segundo, busca cartografar o Círculo Neutro e, para isso, entrevista François Kahn, Francisco Medeiros, Inês Aranha e Maurício Paroni de Castro. Depois, junto a um grupo de atores, instala um campo de verificação prático e experimental para vivenciar, derivar, descrever e enquadrar o Círculo Neutro como \"jogo\". Considera que o jogo e o jogar, portadores dos aspectos risco, acidente e imprevistos, mostram-se produtivos para o trabalho do ator e para o desenvolvimento orgânico da cena, pois colaboram para a formação de um artista mais \"aberto\" e com \"jogo de cintura\". / The study uses the Contemporary Scene (2011-2013) and the Neutral Circle game as support for the actors\' processes of preparation and creation. Firstly, it aims at reflecting about the education environments by relating the propositions of Agamben about the \"whatever being [and the] therefore, irreparable\" (1993), with those of Bauman about \"community, safety, freedom and foreign\" (2003). Secondly, it tries to map the Neutral Circle, and for that interviews François Khan, Francisco Medeiros, Inês Aranha, and Maurício Paroni de Castro. Afterwards, with a group of actors, it establishes a space of practical and experimental verification to experience, derive, describe and frame the Neutral Circle as a \"game\". The analysis considers that the game and the act of playing, involving the aspects of risk, accident and the unexpected, are productive for the work of the actor and for the organic development of the scene, because they collaborate with the formation of an artist who is more \"open\" and \"more flexible\".

This practiced-based thesis examines how a new Visual Communication methodology helps interaction designers to improve their future designs. This is achieved by engaging in creating visual interpretations from a lived experience that they need to design for, to reveal the phenomenological essence of what users have actually experienced, rather than what they say they have. This new Visual Phenomenological Methodology (VPM) places interaction designers into a specific communicational situation, in order to understand the phenomena of users’ lived experience ‘through their eyes.’ Thus immersed, interaction designers montage visual interpretations of what users saw/felt/did in the lived experience. The VPM facilitates interaction designers into designer-interpreters, who can interpret sensory data into a behavioural story of what its like to be the user in a lived experience. This thesis has developed the VPM across three peer reviewed, practice-based projects, using a synthesis of the pragmatic semiotics of Peirce, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, and visual communication techniques. Following the Frascaran view that the design discipline of Visual Communication (graphic design and illustration) is a positive facilitator of behavioural change, the VPM employs this hermeneutic-semiosis synthesis to facilitate interaction designers to develop a deeper and emergent understanding of the hidden motivations behind user behaviour. Through a contextual review into Visual Communication, Interaction Design, Phenomenology and Semiosis, this thesis develops the VPM from a theoretical concept, to a set of designer-friendly method cards that interaction designers can employ during their ideation phase. Throughout its development the VPM and its method cards were workshopped and peer reviewed by interaction designers. This thesis, over the following seven chapters, demonstrates how the VPM successfully provided Visual Communication design with a fresh way to re-influence Interaction Design, as a new contribution to knowledge.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-08-22T12:17:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Saulo de Oliveira Machado.pdf: 2123394 bytes, checksum: c349146a4877892402785fb3a1e6f964 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T12:17:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Saulo de Oliveira Machado.pdf: 2123394 bytes, checksum: c349146a4877892402785fb3a1e6f964 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The attendant research aims to describe the present relations between the concepts of magic circle and metagame and how they are evidenced in the experience of the player. With the increasing presence of digital and board games in the daily life of society, it seems propitious that we return efforts to decipher the elements that make up the experience lived in the games through the players. Through the review of these two concepts we managed to elaborate how their joint acting is presented through a common player presence in the game. To do so, we start with a review of the concepts of magic circle and metagame, its definitions, its most used approaches and how they focus on the experience that the player has during the game. Finally, we focus on demonstrating the presence of these concepts through the MMORPG, World of Warcraft, a game that constains in its diverse ways of playing, various approaches for the player to have contact with his universe / A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo descrever as relações presentes entre os conceitos de círculo mágico e metajogo e como eles se evidenciam na experiência do jogador. Com a crescente presença dos jogos digitais e de tabuleiro no cotidiano da sociedade, parece propício que voltemos esforços em decifrar os elementos que compõe a experiência vivida nos jogos através dos jogadores. Através da revisão destes dois conceitos conseguir elaborar como sua atuação conjunta se apresenta através de um ator comum presença do jogador no jogar. Para tanto, partimos de uma revisão dos conceitos de círculo mágico e metajogo, suas definições, suas abordagens mais utilizadas e como eles se incidem sobre a experiência que o jogador tem durante o jogar. Por fim, nos concentramos em demonstrar a presença destes conceitos através do MMORPG, World of Warcraft, um game que consegue conter em seus diversificados modos de jogar, diversas abordagens para que o jogador tenha contato com seu universo

A presente pesquisa busca identificar, a partir de noções formuladas pelo Círculo de Bakhtin (como dialogismo, responsividade, esfera, gênero, enunciado etc), mecanismos e processos pelos quais o discurso da SBPC (Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência) materializado nos editoriais da revista Ciência Hoje se constitui (dialógica e responsivamente) pela interação com outros discursos em circulação no contexto em que ela é criada e produzida. Focalizando os editoriais na qualidade de enunciados e, portanto, como unidades da comunicação discursiva em que se dá o encontro entre a língua e a realidade históricosocial, o trabalho explora a hipótese de que a revista, criada no início dos anos 80 em um contexto discursivo marcado por intensa politização, corresponde a um ato responsivo por meio do qual a SBPC procura afirmar sua posição diante das questões em pauta no grande diálogo travado na sociedade brasileira. Nessas condições, os editoriais refletem e refratam as mais importantes posições ideológico-discursivas em interação e disputa no panorama discursivo do país, as quais, sob diferentes acentos apreciativos, vão se incorporar aos elementos que compõem a arquitetura desses editoriais. Entre as principais posições refletidas e refratadas no território desses editoriais estão aquelas que se manifestam nos discursos da democratização e da cidadania. / This research intends to identify, using notions formulated by the Bakhtin Circle (such as dialogism, answerability, sphere, genre, utterance etc), mechanisms and processes through which the speech of the SBPC-Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science), materialized in editorials of the Ciência Hoje magazine, is constituted (dialogically and responsively) by the interaction with other speeches in circulation in the context where it is created and produced. Focusing on editorials in its condition of utterances and, therefore, as units of the discursive communication in which occurs the encounter between language and social reality, this study explores the hypothesis that the magazine, created at the beginning of 80\'s in a discursive context marked by intense politicalization, corresponds to a responsive act by which SBPC attempts to affirm its position on the issues in discussion in the great dialogue in Brazilian society, reflecting and refracting, in its utterances, the most important ideological-discursive positions in interaction and dispute in the discursive panorama of the country, which, under different appreciative accents, will integrate the elements that compose the architecture of the magazine editorials. Among the main positions reflected and refracted in the territory of these editorials are those revealed in the speeches of democratization and citizenship.