A Didactic Model of Computer Supported Education in Higher Mathematics

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education and Research in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2016

The objective of the study is the mathematics and IT competence of the students in engineering profiles. The subject of the study is the incorporation of CAS and cloud technologies in training university students aimed to avoid the heavy routine calculations. This approach allows to put the stress on the qualitative aspects of mathematics applications. The new educational paradigm stated is that mathematics education should be oriented to the application of CAS in solving problems. The crucial point is the elaboration of the CAS – syntax knowledge and the ability to interpret the outcomes of CAS based solutions. A didactic model of computer-supported education is designed. The model was approbated in several didactic scenarios in „Numerical Methods“ for the courses „Higher Mathematics 3“ and „Applied Mathematics“, using web-based teaching materials for training and test control.

Association for the Development of the Information Society, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski"