Creation and uses of the LineAlg application as a learning object in Basic Education

Abstract

Mathematical literacy is indispensable to educational processes that train people capable of fully exercising their citizenship. The contemporary school also cannot do without technologies like computers and mobile electronic devices. This work articulated in both needs with the objective of developing an application for auxiliary teaching-learning processes of matrices, determinants and systems of linear equations in High School. To this end,bibliographic research was carried out on the common teaching of linear algebra and, consequently, the development of a mobile application using a Python language and a Kivy library. Functions were applied that allow calculating and verifying the calculations step by step, as well as taking lessons through a chatbot, still an application for balancing defined equations. In addition to these uses, there is also an activity with the application, an objective of highlighting the potential of classes to increase mathematics and individual studies of students in algebra, even remotely.

Keywords

• mathematics teaching
• digital technologies
• linear algebra