Luís Descalço
What's new in projects MEGUA and SIACUA?
Project MATEAS, integrated as a research line in the research unit CIDMA, has three main goals: (i) to share and register approaches to teaching and assessment; (ii) Curricula development taking into account human cognition; (iii) Research and development of computer systems for using in autonomous study in mathematics.
A monthly seminar was initiated in 2014/2015. All talks are filmed and registered in a wiki page (mateas.wikidot.com).
Two other projects are embedded in MATEAS, with the corresponding computer systems: MEGUA (megua.web.ua.pt), for the development of parameterized questions and SIACUA (siacua.web.ua.pt) for making these questions available for students and providing feedback. These systems together allow teachers to create and make multiple choice questions with detailed solution available for students immediately.
In this talk we present the recent work inside these two projects, essentially allowing the systems to be improved in many ways, to be more easily used and more useful for teachers and students, and to cover better a larger set of subjects in mathematics. We shall also refer some results of experiments already made with students and point out some future directions concerning experimentation and research.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by CIDMA (“Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications”) and FCT (“FCT- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia”) through project UID/MAT/04106/2013.
A monthly seminar was initiated in 2014/2015. All talks are filmed and registered in a wiki page (mateas.wikidot.com).
Two other projects are embedded in MATEAS, with the corresponding computer systems: MEGUA (megua.web.ua.pt), for the development of parameterized questions and SIACUA (siacua.web.ua.pt) for making these questions available for students and providing feedback. These systems together allow teachers to create and make multiple choice questions with detailed solution available for students immediately.
In this talk we present the recent work inside these two projects, essentially allowing the systems to be improved in many ways, to be more easily used and more useful for teachers and students, and to cover better a larger set of subjects in mathematics. We shall also refer some results of experiments already made with students and point out some future directions concerning experimentation and research.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by CIDMA (“Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications”) and FCT (“FCT- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia”) through project UID/MAT/04106/2013.