Kísérleti új típusú matematikaoktatás a Kaposvári Egyetemen NEW STYLE PILOT CALCULUS COURSE AT KAPOSVÁR UNIVERSITY

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ABSTRACT

This publication is about an educational experiment in connection with teaching Calculus for first-year students of “Finance” and “Commerce and Marketing” of Kaposvár University in the framework of an EFOP project. Such experiments are more common in tertiary and secondary education, less at the university level. The project team started with looking for Hungarian experiences, information, statistics, in this field. Thus, this additional literature review starts the publication. The second part of the literature review was in connection with possible methodologies, educational techniques. We wanted to find, predict which ones are proper, achievable for us, match our situation, support our goals. We wanted to plan the implementation of the pilot course. We invited second, third years students to be mentors to help the students not only in the professional problems but support the cooperative learning process, the communication, team building, creativity, mentality change of the students. In the publication, a very detailed explanation of the pilot course’s implementation comes next. In the conclusion the advantages and the problematic parts of the educational experiment are listed. Our main goal was wider than to teach mathematical algorithms more efficient but improve the creativity, problem-solving skills, the braveness of the students to face new challenges. To use the internet in English and use the information, techniques with critics.

Summarized, we can state, nowadays because of the changed mentality of the students and the newly available techniques, such educational experiences are important to establish new, efficient ways of teaching. We consider maybe we took only a small, but important step, and definitely, into the right direction!