Index of Failures in the Calculation Subjects at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Abstract

The present work deals with the Index of Failures in calculus disciplines in Engineering courses, as they involve concepts that during high school, before entering higher education, are little spoken, becoming a discipline that scares students. The methodology was carried out through quantitative and qualitative analyzes in order to evaluate the failure rates in the calculus discipline offered at the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture, Urbanism and Geography at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. The objective was to understand the reasons that influenced the failure in this subject, including remote teaching during the COVID 19 pandemic. of students retained in this discipline, were some of the reasons raised by students as justification for failure.