IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/sek/itepro/3906551.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Engineering problems in mathematics lessons in higher education

Author

Listed:
  • Nárcisz Kulcsár

    (Széchenyi István University, Department of Mathematics and Computational Sciences)

Abstract

It is a well-known problem that numerous disciplines and the connected labour market suffer from the lack of experts despite mass higher education. Subjects in engineering and natural sciences especially physics, chemistry and mathematics face a significant problem, namely interest of students turns away from these sciences. In engineering education in higher education, mathematics is a basic course in which students do not like to immerse deeply. Is there any way to recapture their interest in mathematics? A possible way could be teaching real-life problems, which can complete traditional education. As engineers solve real-life problems in their daily work their education should be practice-oriented, full of real-life problems.In my presentation I would like to present some possibilities how can we connect mathematics with real life, what are the advantages and difficulties of using real life problems in lessons, what kind of technical mediators can help teachers to illustrate mathematical problems, what is the role of visualization in calculus, how can we make relations between abstract science and real world.

Suggested Citation

  • Nárcisz Kulcsár, 2016. "Engineering problems in mathematics lessons in higher education," Proceedings of Teaching and Education Conferences 3906551, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:sek:itepro:3906551
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://iises.net/proceedings/3rd-teaching-education-conference-barcelona/table-of-content/detail?cid=39&iid=014&rid=6551
    File Function: First version, 2016
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    real-life problems; word problems; visualization; higher education; mathematics teaching;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sek:itepro:3906551. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Klara Cermakova (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://iises.net/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.