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Creative Education, 2019, 10, 1525-1538 http://www.scirp.org/journal/ce ISSN Online: 2151-4771 ISSN Print: 2151-4755 Papert’s Microworld and Geogebra: A Proposal to Improve Teaching of Functions Carlos Vitor De Alencar Carvalho1,4, Lícia Giesta Ferreira De Medeiros2, Antonio Paulo Muccillo De Medeiros3, Ricardo Marinho Santos4 1State University Center of Western, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 2CEFET/RJ, Valença, RJ, Brazil 3Rio de Janeiro Federal Institute (IFRJ), Pinheiral, RJ, Brazil 4Vassouras University, Vassouras, RJ, Brazil How to cite this paper: De Alencar Car- Abstract valho, C. V., De Medeiros, L. G. F., De Me- deiros, A. P. M., & Santos, R. M. (2019). This paper discusses how to improve teaching of Mathematics in Brazilian Papert’s Microworld and Geogebra: A Pro- schools, based on Seymour Papert’s Constructionism associated with Infor- posal to Improve Teaching of Functions. mation Technology tools. Specifically, this work introduces the construction- Creative Education, 10, 1525-1538. https://doi.org/10.4236/ce.2019.107111 ist microworld, a digital environment where students are able to build their knowledge interactively, in this case, using dynamic mathematics software Received: June 6, 2019 GeoGebra. Accepted: July 14, 2019 Published: July 17, 2019 Keywords Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and Microworld, GeoGebra, Seymour Papert, Information Technologies in Scientific Research Publishing Inc. Education This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access 1. Introduction This research’s main goal is to present a proposal to help Brazilian teachers im- prove their educational practices.
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