Linear programming education: implementation of academic and professional realities

Abstract

This article seeks to show that learning environments centered on an everyday or professional topics, usually in the interest of students and supported by technology, contribute favorably to minimize the feeling of irrelevance of mathematical contents, common among students. The problems proposed were based on work carried out in Linear Programming discipline from an Information Systems Course in which many of the students involved also execute professional activities, making it difficult to dedicate to the studies. Through the experience, it was possible to observe that the use of everyday or professional subjects contribute to minimize the sense of irrelevance of the discipline and, in addition, the students became more critical and involved with the information received.

Keywords

• Everyday problems
• Mathematical contents
• Mathematical modeling.