MIND MAPS IN DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Keywords:
Teaching-learning, Mind Map, Meaningful Learning, Active MethodologyAbstract
This experience report presents the activity of constructing mind maps in higher education, specifically on the classifications of first-order ordinary differential equations, showing their relationships and methods of resolution. It was carried out in the context of the ordinary differential equations course, in the third semester of the production engineering program at the Celso Suckow da Fonseca Federal Center for Technological Education, CEFET-RJ. Its objective is to improve students' understanding of the different types of differential equations, their relationships, and solutions. The development of the activity involved three months of classes, problem sets, and teacher/student interactions, where students learned about six types of differential equations, their classification, and resolution techniques. At the end, we asked the students to write a few words about the activity so that we could evaluate it, and this indicated a better understanding of the subject matter, the classification of a first-order differential equation, and its resolution, highlighting the importance of students producing mind maps, something rarely encouraged in higher education, as a way to review, study, memorize, and learn about the subject.
