“MATHEMATICA” IN TEACHING STUDENTS MATHEMATICS

Abstract

The relevance of the topic of the article is due to the process of modernization of higher mathematical education in Russia, which has led to a significant change in curricula and the need to look for ways and forms of training that would allow students to learn the necessary material within the time granted for studying, while obtaining the maximum necessary amount of skills, knowledge, and competencies. The objective of the article is to justify the ways and principles of the development and implementation of new pedagogical and information technologies in the educational process, the organization of professional education of students in technical areas based on the integration of mathematics and computer science. The leading method of the study of this problem is the methodological analysis and subsequent synthesis, which, by analyzing the didactic content of the sections in mathematics and the possibilities of the computer mathematical environment called Mathematica, reveals the necessary methods and ways of developing and using modern computer technologies in the mathematical education of engineering students. It is proved that one of the main tools for implementing the methods for solving the indicated problem should be considered a computer, namely, the mathematical environment called Mathematica, and the basic principles of its systemic implementation in the educational process of the university have been identified. The materials of the article may be useful to teachers of mathematical disciplines of higher educational institutions, the computer programs and pedagogical software products created in Mathematica can serve as models for the development of similar pedagogical software products.