Year LVI, Issue 5, 2013<<Archive>>
In this issue:
Articles
FIRST CREATIVE COMPETITION FOR MATHEMATICS TEACHERS OF KAZAKHSTAN
The First Congress of Mathematics Teachers of Kazakhstan was held on 10–12 May 2011. One of the decisions was to create the Kazakhstan Association of Mathematics Teachers, which was registered officially on 6 July 2012. According to the Event Plan the First c...
creative competition, problem solving, teacher, achievement, methodology
MATHEMATICAL REGATTAS
The domain of real human activity requires a successive “team” work: joint planning of actions; division of labor; discussion of problematic moments and so forth. Various team mathematical competitions give possibilities to model such activities. The present p...
team competition, round, mathematical problem, problem solving, solution
MARKOV CHAINS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN GOOGLE
In this paper we study the behaviour of physical systems that evolves over time. The model is stochastic and is described by Markov chain with finite number of steps and constant transition probabilities. The text is suitable for high school students. Common s...
Markov chain, web page ranking, PageRank
SOME APPLICATIONS OF THE COMPUTER PROGRAM „DISCOVERER“
The aim of the computer program „Discoverer“, which is in process of development by the authors of this article, is to discover new theorems in Euclidean Geometry. The authors present some theorems, generated by „Discoverer“ and show how these theorems could b...
computer-generated mathematics, Euclidean geometry, Discoverer, mathematical olympiad
AN INTERESTING PROPERTY FOR SOME CLASSES OF REAL FUNCTIONS
The paper is dedicated to the methodological determination of some classes of real functions, for which the distance between the abscises of any two points from their graphics is equal to the distance between the intersection points of the tangents to the grap...
function, exponent, graphics, tangent, distance
SYNERGETIC APPROACH TO THE TRAINING PROCESS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Synergetic approach is applied in this study, because the training process of Information Technology is non-linear, open system, subjected to internal and external influences. Synergetics explains the existing interrelationships among the elements of the system...
synergetic approach, process of information technology training, attractor at macro level, methodology for training of information technology
BOOSTING EFFICIENCY OF PROJECT-ORIENTED TEACHING AND LEARNING THROUGH CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT AND ONLINE TESTING
A set of classroom management and testing policies was elaborated and, after two years of piloting, it was further developed and administered to 247 students at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Plovdiv University “Paisiy Hilendarski”. The main purpo...
classroom management, project-oriented learning, The Common European framework of reference for languages: learning, teaching, assessment, testing