Open AccessA challenge to improve the interest of students for mathematics education
Author(s) -
C Ciobanu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
scientific bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-8956
pISSN - 1454-864X
DOI - 10.21279/1454-864x-19-i1-013
Subject(s) - mathematics education , formalism (music) , computer science , engineering , algebra over a field , mathematics , pure mathematics , art , musical , visual arts
This paper presents the results and the conclusions that we have drawn from the analysis made following two surveys conducted with the first years' students from the Faculty of Navigation and Naval Management from "Mircea cel Batran" Naval Academy in the second semester of the academic year 2017-2018. The aim was to find out, in the students' understanding, which is the importance of Linear Algebra, Analytical Geometry and Differential Geometry in the educational process. Both surveys sought to emerge from the tradition of teaching classical mathematics, structured on programs that have not undergone much change over time, which was based on exacerbated formalism, abstracting and disregard for the exceptional advances of science and technology from the last decades.