FUTURE ENGINEERS COMPUTATIONAL THINKING DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICS COURSE
- Authors: Kulikova I.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Ural State University of Railway Transport
- Issue: No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 55-65
- Section: Theories, models and technologies of teaching mathematics and computer science in the system of vocational education
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/2500-1957/article/view/304942
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.24888/2500-1957-2025-1-55-65
- ID: 304942
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The paper considers the problem of using computer mathematics systems in solving mathematical problems by students studying in specialties and training areas in the field of engineering and technology of land transport. The results of a content analysis of the concept of computational thinking of students of various specialties and fields of study in the process of their education in general scientific and special disciplines are presented. In the context of the problem under study, computational thinking is considered as the process of programming an algorithm for solving a problem using computer mathematics systems. When studying a university mathematics course, it is proposed to use special didactic tasks (complex computer-mathematical ones), the implementation of which provides for the mandatory use of the Mathcad computer mathematics system. The formulation of such tasks is based on the modification of the content of standard mathematical problems with the addition of the mandatory use of the Mathcad computer mathematics system to find quantitative values of the desired quantities. The article presents tasks for solving a system of linear algebraic equations (four equations and four unknowns) with multi-valued non-integer values of free terms and coefficients before the unknowns, constructing a graph of the surface of a function of two variables in a three-dimensional rectangular coordinate system, which has extremum points and stationary points, and simulating a random event to calculate its relative frequency. The implementation of the proposed complex computer-mathematical tasks determines the need to go through such stages as the perception of the learning task, the definition of a mathematical model, the construction of an algorithm for solving the problem, programming computational actions, and analyzing the results obtained. These stages create favorable conditions for the activation of students' cognitive activity and the development of their computational thinking.
About the authors
I. V. Kulikova
Ural State University of Railway Transport
Author for correspondence.
Email: ivkulikova@usurt.ru
senior lecturer Ekaterinburg
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