REGIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND METHODICAL PROJECT «CULTURAL MATHEMATICAL CODES»AS A DEVELOPMENT TOOL POLICULTURAL COMPETENCE OF EDUCATORS

Abstract

The results of the first stage of implementation of the regional scientific and methodological project «The Cultural Codes of Mathematics» are analyzed in the article. The project is aimed at forming and further development of multicultural competence of mathematics teachers. It revealed the systematical links with basic concepts of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) project «THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION AND SKILLS. Education 2030».The article explored perspective directions of public inquiry into agency and innovations in education. It is just the problems of educational agency and the formation in its context of multicultural competence of the subjects of the educational process that the project «The Cultural Codes of Mathematics» is devoted. The Ukrainian mathematics curriculum explanatory note for 5 – 9 grades explains that mathematics teaching should make some contribution to the formation of key competences, including information and understanding the cases of manifestation of mathematical laws in the field of culture. According to this the project «The Cultural Codes of Mathematics» is aimed at
the formation of student’s awareness of the interconnection of mathematics and culture on the examples of architecture, painting, music and other manifestations of culture.

The results of the questionnaire of mathematics teachers of Rivne region are presented in the article. The questions of the questionnaire were devoted to clarify teacher’s understanding what the multicultural competence means and how teachers can shape it into the process of teaching mathematics.