Skills of students finishing the first stage of learning of mathematical modelling
Skills of students finishing the first stage of learning of mathematical modelling

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, one of basic skills that every student by the end of primary school should acquire is, among other things, application of mathematics in everyday life1. In the era of computers, the calculation skills tend to decrease in significance in contrary to application skills. Te aim of my research is diagnosing the skills of students fishing the first stage of learning of mathematical modelling. Te main question is whether students actually possess skills in this field. In order to specify the issue, particular tasks were presented: time duration calculations, date duration calculations,calculations on money and length measurements. In the research, there was applied the method of diagnostic survey, and the technique used is the analysis of documents.To conduct the research, there was used the set of four tasks concerning the application of skills of mathematical modelling in practice. Te tasks were constructed ina way allowing to answer for the main questions of this research and also to verify the accuracy of the hypotheses stated. Quantitative analysis shows quite clearly (61%of respondents correctly solved all the tasks) that the third-grade students have skills in the field of mathematical modelling. It should be noted, that 39% of all respondents have a problem with the tasks of this type. This is worrying number of students, which should be paid special attention. However, thing that is worth appreciation, is creativity of students. In an unfamiliar situation, students created their own methods, which resulted in accuracy of answers.

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