How to Improve the Mathematical Competences of Future Primary School Teachers in Ukraine? Innovative Aspect

Abstract

The article attempts to optimize the development of mathematical competence in future primary school teachers via innovative technologies within the framework of the transitional form of Ukrainian higher education. The article aims to determine, substantiate and experimentally verify the effectiveness of organizational-pedagogical conditions for developing mathematical competence in future primary school teachers via innovative technologies. The study was an experiment and carried out during 2017-2020 and enrolled 648 students from faculties of training future primary school teachers (6 universities in Ukraine). For the successful carrying out of the study, theoretical, empirical (the main ones are molding and control experiments) methods, as well as methods of mathematical statistics to objectify the results of the experiment, were used. Previously, we have identified and described the organizationally necessary pedagogical conditions for successful development of mathematical competence in future primary school teachers via innovative technologies. In turn, we found a significant difference between the levels of students’ mathematical competence. The data obtained in the process of the molding experiment confirm the effectiveness of the author’s model and the specified pedagogical conditions for developing mathematical competence in future primary school teachers via innovative technologies, which bespeaks the achievement of the set goals of the work and the solution of the formulated tasks.