Loginio mąstymo svarba ir matematinės edukacijos tendencijos bei problemos
Importance of The Logical Thinking and Tendencies and Problems of Mathematical Education In Lithuania

Summary/Abstract: The scientists acknowledge the mathematics as method of logical thinking which allows to analyze and to create. But for the last years a dangerous tendency is being observed in Lithuania – only a half or even smaller part of first year students, who would like to become teachers of mathematics, physics or chemistry subjects, is completed. The article discusses the reasons of this phenomenon, accentuating the problems of mathematical education. However it will soon stipulate another dangerous tendency – under the free competition model in the evolution stage of Lithuania higher education and not to be able to complete groups of specialities mentioned above, the universities, which are financed proportional to the number of admitted students, will be choked off these specialities by changing them to others or merely reducing the staff. It is not difficult to agree with more and more often being declared opinion, that we should think today not about how to raise the requirements for teacher, but if they do have generally any meaning, when secondary school director is joyful with everyone, who agrees to work as a teacher. In the context of development of mathematical education some negative tendencies are observed during the two last decades. We think, that the most important of them are the following: the big differences between level of secondary school knowledge and university requirements for first year students; the reduced number of mathematics lessons in the secondary school stipulate for the big harm of formation of logical thinking of pupil and upcoming student; deterioration of teachers circumstances and education financing; absence of competition and even lack of students, who plan to study the mathematics specialities at the universities of pedagogical and technical profile; incapacity of modern mathematics teachers to rearrange the presentation of traditional courses so, that it would correspond the significant reduced mathematical sophistication level of school-leaver; a little use of information technologies during the lectures and practical. The designation of these tendencies, perception and analysis would have to help for improvement of education process not only in the secondary schools, but in the universities as well.

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