Un laboratorio de matemáticas basado en el estudio de un problema real utilizando el enfoque de los modelos IBM

Abstract

Education in Engineering and Sciences requires math skills oriented to the applications, ie to the mathematical models. In the first degree courses, models usually are introduced from the speech of the teacher, being still difficult for the students to be able for building models using differential equations or difference equations. In this context, the student's work is reduced to experimenting with the given model, and is essential having available a proper assistant for the computations. Individual Based Modeling (IBM) may grant an important role to the student, also in the model design phase. The approach to a problem by IBM models consists in explaining the behavior of a system by the aggregation of the individual behavior of each of the elements of the system. In this work, a practical experience introducing IBM is presented, using as assistants Matlab © and / or Octave © .