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    Mancha negra: reflexões sobre um projeto no ensino de cálculo
    (2002) MELLO, Margarida P.; SANTOS, Sandra A.
    Oil spilling from a tanker in a coastal region forms the setting of a Calculus project, which chiefly explores the topic “level curves.” After tackling a given problem, the student is asked to research other phenomena that bear relation with this topic, and devise new problems. The objectives and strategies adopted in the work with projects undertaken by the authors in the context of the Calculus with Applications team, formed by a group of teachers from the State University of Campinas, are described. The thirty-six projects produced by a class of seventy-one students are analyzed. Reflections are made upon the results achieved and the effects of the project work for this class of Engineering students.
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    O computador no ensino de calculo: o problema do lixo na Unicamp e outras aplicações
    (1997) FIGUEIREDO, Vera L.X.; SANTOS, Sandra A.
    In the second semester of 1996, we worked experimentally with education in a broad sense, integrating the teaching of Calculus of several variables with projects dealing with an environmental issue: The Garbage at Unicamp. Our aim was not only using Calculus as a tool in the solution of real problems but also that our students became aware of such important social issue. Moreover, with the purpose of dealing with the necessary changes in the teaching of Calculus, we effectively incorporated, for the first time, in our classes the use of the computer (software Mathematica) as an auxiliary tool for understanding and exploiting concepts. Such proposal for teaching relied on the tutors of the Program of Support for Undergraduate Teaching - PSUT, of the State University of Campinas and was denominated Calculus with Applications/PSUT. In this work, the implementation of our proposal is described, including the project and examples of activities that were developed by the students