DIGITAL LIBRARY
THE STUDY OF MATHEMATICS IN THE PORTUGUESE UNIVERSITIES WITH THE BOLOGNA PROCESS
1 Instituto de Telecomunicações. DI - UBI (PORTUGAL)
2 U&ID “Mathematics and Applications” - UA. DM - UTAD (PORTUGAL)
About this paper:
Appears in: INTED2009 Proceedings
Publication year: 2009
Pages: 4373-4379
ISBN: 978-84-612-7578-6
ISSN: 2340-1079
Conference name: 3rd International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Dates: 9-11 March, 2009
Location: Valencia, Spain
Abstract:
In recent years some movements and studies have been transforming the Mathematical Courses in the Universities. For example the Calculus Reform Movement or The Linear Algebra Curriculum Study, which are nowadays references for any work involving Mathematics Learning and Teaching at a University level. It is not a merely coincidence that this happens with the development of Computers that make an essential part in classrooms environment in the Universities worldwide.
Those reforms have been accelerated by the Bologna Process that introduced a structural change in European Universities. We study the changes of the Mathematics Disciplines taught in Undergraduate Courses at Portuguese Universities, after Bologna considering, mainly, their number and curricula. Furthermore we explore in more details the case of Linear Algebra providing some issues for further discussions.
Keywords:
bologna process.