ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION OF OLDER PUPILS IN THE MATHEMATICS LESSONS
Abstract
The article reveals that the emergence of an information society at the beginning of the third millennium is closely linked to the processes of globalization and is characterized by radical changes that cover all spheres of human life, including the education system. The role of the teacher, who should now be not only one of the sources of knowledge, but also the manager of the educational process, has changed. A modern teacher should teach a student to acquire knowledge, apply it in practice, and work to ensure that the educational standards defined in the state standard become the property of each student, the basis for forming his personal beliefs. In recent decades, environmental education has emerged as a new field of pedagogical theory and school practice. At the same time, there are practically no works in the mathematics teaching methods related to environmental education and upbringing in modern pedagogical studies. The formation of ecological knowledge among students in the process of teaching mathematics can occur in various forms of educational and cognitive activity of students: solving tasks selected by the teacher; tasking students and solving them; performing and compiling partial search tasks (to predict the results of experiments or the effects of environmental factors, to plan research, to understand certain situations, to explain situations, to predict the possible consequences of their activities or activities of other people); writing ecological-mathematical dictates; short interesting messages in the lesson; conducting integrated lessons; conducting cognitive environmental and mathematical games and other extracurricular activities, etc. The use of the elements of ecology and nature protection proposed in the article in the course of the mathematics course in high school lessons will greatly facilitate the work of mathematics teachers and will increase the interest of students in the subject, deepen mathematical knowledge and environmental education.
