Scientific journal
Научное обозрение. Педагогические науки
ISSN 2500-3402
ПИ №ФС77-57475

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HOW TO MAKE MATHEMATICS HISTORY A PART OF PROBABILITY THEORY TEACHING IN SECONDARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Grigoryan M.E. 1
1 Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
The current process of transition to competence-oriented education includes the emerging requirements to develop professional and cultural competences as a learning outcome. Those competences play an important role in future professional work and social adaptation as well. Each branch of mathematics science contributes to the process of requirement implementation. Some of them cannot be realized unless mathematics history is part and parcel of learning. Probability theory has a rich and instructive history. It demonstrates how it basic concepts emerged and how the solution of social tasks led to methods development. The article describes forms, means, ways, and methods aimed at including mathematics history into probability theory teaching. The article gives some historic data which illustrate the capacity of mathematics history in teaching, particularly today when current standards of vocational education are being implement. The material presented here can be used at probability theory classes. What is more, it promotes the development of students general and professional competencies.