IMPROVEMENT OF THE PROJECT ACTIVITY OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS USING THE MAPLE COMPUTER MATHEMATICS SYSTEM

The processes of globalization and the emergence of a post-industrial, information society have posed new challenges for higher education. The role of higher education in solving these problems is defined in modern educational standards and standard educational programs. In the current situation, it is necessary to develop in future mathematics teachers not only systemic knowledge, but also the quality of a young specialist who can apply the knowledge and skills acquired in practical activities and everyday life. Therefore, it is necessary to study the features of improving students’ project activities. Over the past ten years, design method as a new pedagogical technology has become the subject of numerous studies. A lot of information is contained in the pedagogical, psychological and methodological literature on the organization of student project activities.

This article discusses the issues of organizing students' project activities when studying the discipline "Mathematical Analysis" and the use of one of its most effective methods - the Maple computer mathematics system (SCM). It provides for the improvement of students' design work using this program. But when improving students’ project activities using the Maple computer mathematics system, the principles for selecting topics and the requirements for them are not defined. It is necessary to determine what type of design work is best performed using the Maple computer mathematics system. In particular, this problem has still not been sufficiently studied in the psychological and pedagogical literature: these are a) the principles of choosing educational materials that organize project work, the problem of determining the levels of project activity of students; b) a complete model for preparing project assignments has not been developed; c) the content-structural features of performing project activities using the Maple computer mathematics system are not considered.

The content-structural model and didactic features of the development of project activities of future mathematics teachers using the Maple computer mathematics system are outlined .