Designing Teaching Materials Supported by Computer Algebra Systems

Abstract

The paper presents the method of designing of illustrative materials, used in teaching students of the technical training program, supported by computer algebra systems (Mathematica, Matlab, MatCad, etc.). Its main didactics characteristics are considered. The method under consideration characterizes by variability of the achieved learning goals, personification of the learning process, grading of materials by the grasping levels, ability to easily and quickly create additional materials, the possibility of using both for classroom and extracurricular work. This method is used by the authors at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University in teaching students of the Faculty "Special Engineering". As an example of the application of the method, we present the Mathematica code which was used to create interactive education materials on one of the topics studied at the beginning of the course of mathematical statistics, devoted to the description and presentation of sample data.

Keywords

• educational material
• computer algebra systems
• interactive templates
• mathematical sta-tistics
• it-education