AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO THE BASIC MATHEMATICAL EDUCATION OF ECONOMISTS

Abstract

The demands of modern society are setting up the prospects of the dynamic development of the innovative environment that combines vocational training with advanced science and competitive businesses. In turn, these trends necessitate the use of an integrative approach to the vocational training in higher education. The structure of the integrative approach implemented in the framework of a certain basic learning discipline produces multiple links at four levels of integration: interdisciplinary, intra-disciplinary, interpersonal, intrapersonal. The paper discusses the experience gained with the integrative approach applied to the basic mathematical program for first-year students trained for the BA degree in Economics at Financial University. Three components of the integrative approach are described. The first is a “socio-cultural” aspect related to the review-and-entertaining mathematics within the propedeutics of the future research. The second component of the integrative approach represented by the design activity is concerned with solution of practice-oriented tasks using the mathematical apparatus studied by first-year students. Finally, the third component of the approach referred to as the case-method aiming at mathematical solution of situational problems develops the ability to formulate a problem independently, structurize the information, find an optimal solution and prove its optimality.

Keywords

• образовательная технология
• интегративный подход
• проектная технология
• кейс-метод
• высшая математика