GeoGebra as facilitator of a hypotrochoid generalization in an initiation scientific research project at undergraduate level

• Ana Maria Amarillo Bertone

  University of Uberlandia, Brazil

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• Lucia Resende Pereira, Mrs

  Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil

  Author

• Ingrid da Silva Pacheco

  Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil

  Author

• Layla Giovanna Girotto

  Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil

  Author

An initiation to scientific research project was proposed for two undergraduate students in Environmental Engineering, with the porpuse of studing a generalization of the hypotrochoid and epitrochoid curves.  The GeoGebra software is the facilitator of the team of two professors and the students. The difficulties of the mathematical proofs become, in the environment of the dynamic geometry, exercises of construction of curves that, arranged in sequence, determined the generalization of the well-known hypotrochoid curve, result that is the detailed in this work. From this first discovery, the transition to epitrochoid curves or more general curve,s becomes an iterative application and an applicattion of mathematical induction. This study   has demonstrated the importance of the computational tool, specially for its contribution in the visualization of theoretical results as well as for its simplicity in coding.

1. Ana Maria Amarillo Bertone, University of Uberlandia, Brazil

   Dept. of Mathematics

2. Lucia Resende Pereira, Mrs, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil

   Dept. of Mathematics

3. Ingrid da Silva Pacheco, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil

   Institute of Agrarian Sciences

4. Layla Giovanna Girotto, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil

   Institute of Agrarian Sciences

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