Story of experience: calculus in comics

Abstract

Calculus in comics? It's possible? It is notorious that in classes taught exclusively in traditional and expositive forms the student is dispersed and not stimulated to learn. In this way, research is growing in the study of the change of the student's behavior in relation to her learning process. Considering this aspect, the present work aims to report how it is possible to use comics in a compulsory discipline class, Calculus, of the course of Engineering of the University of Brasília of the Gama campus, in an attempt to bring the student closer to the content, motivate the learning environment and make the classroom environment closer and more attractive to the student. At the end of the didactic sequence, a questionnaire was applied so that the student could evaluate the experience. In the evaluation carried out by the students it was concluded that the universe of the strips in the teaching of Calculus made the study more significant, relaxed and effective.