Abstract:

The growth of technological resources requires modern society to be absolutely contingent on profound change. Teaching systems in Higher Education are not exempt from this influence and are permeable to these transformations that cause the need to: review and adapt academic management, rearrange their organization, produce modifications in programs, and consequently change the processes that regulate teaching and learning within the university community.
Incorporating educational projects involving interdisciplinary teaching is a methodology that promotes the realization of comprehensive training of students since it establishes a multifocal view of the different contents of a subject.

The emergence of computational means, so attractive to students, not only because of the wide possibilities of work, but because of the familiarity with which students develop with them, have had a strong impact on the teaching of the Basic Sciences engineering careers.

In first-year math courses there are different topics that hinder the teaching-learning process, such as creating a nested list of multidimensional matrices, due to the lack of specific applications of those concepts that give to contribute to acquiring the math skills required at the earliest levels of the career.

In order for students to emerge, due to the high abstraction power of linear algebra (LA), it is essential to present simple models that can encourage students to develop new ways of thinking and reasoning while trigger motivating teaching situations.

One problem to be solved by various areas of science is to know the mathematical mechanisms by which simple components acting together sequentially can produce highly complex behaviors.
Advanced mathematical concepts take place in application topics where dynamic systems are analyzed in discrete time steps.

To acquire mathematical skills in the development of complex models from concepts of Algebra and Analytical Geometry (A&AG), it is implemented from the first level of the engineering career activities for the construction of computational algorithms such as methods for designing mathematical objects.

This paper presents a proposal to develop the topic of cellular automata, specifically the development of the model called The Game of Life, from the perspective of LA developed in the subject A&AG, so that later this automaton can be addressed from the perspective of structured programming logic using simple data and control structures, as taught in the Algorithms and Data Structures course.

Keywords:

Interdisciplinary work, dynamic systems, computational mathematics, Complex behavior.