THE USE OF LATEX IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ANIMATION OF FIGURES GEOMETRIC AS A HELP IN THE TEACHING OF GEOMETRY

Animation. LaTeX. Flat figure areas.

Geometry is notoriously a branch of Mathematics that is essentially visual, a text
if well written and with well-drawn figures certainly contributes to a better understanding
of the message that is intended to convey, even more so when the interlocutor
is a student who is in the process of building the knowledge, as is the case
of high school students. This work proposes the use of LATEX to produce animated
figures that help high school teachers in the teaching of Plane Geometry. We descriptively
explore the production of animations that make use of macros belonging
to the packages TikZ, tkz-eulide and Animate. We present a Proposal for a Didactic
Sequence that explores animations produced with such packages, where it is shown
how to use them effectively and which aims to assist teachers in demonstrating the
formulas of the areas of the main plane figures.