Learning calculus with geogebra at college

Abstract

Calculus was one of important and fundamental subjects for engineering students. However, there was many students had difficulties on this subject. On the other hand, Geogebra, one of mathematics software, was developed to represent mathematical object. Therefore, learning calculus with Geogebra was expected to make students understand the material. The aim of this research was to describe and analyse how learning integral calculus by using Geogebra give impact for students. This study was qualitative research. The data was collected by observation, questionnaire, and task. The result of this research showed that more than 50% students gave positive respond about using Geogebra on calculus learning. Geogebra was useful to help students understanding the material of integral calculus such as area between two curves, surface area, and volume of rotary object. Moreover, learning calculus with Geogebra gave higher motivation for students and made joyful learning. Based on the task, most of students could represent the function that given in problem to the graph and solved the problems exactly.