Abstract
There is much discussion recent years about teaching mathematics at school and universities. It is talked about how to interest pupils and students to turn to studying mathematics more. One of the ways to attract the best students to additional studies of mathematics is to invite them to participate in the Olympiads in mathematics. Student Parliament of Riga Technical University in cooperation with the Department of Engineering Mathematics organized the university Olympiad in mathematics for 6 years. There is an international Olympiad of mathematics in Latvia already for 6 years, which is organized by the Department of Mathematics of Latvia University of Agriculture. Students from Baltic universities participate in these Olympiads, and within their scope, students not only compete individually, but also discuss among themselves the content of mathematics and teaching methodology in their universities, evaluate it and express their suggestions for the improvements. Since 2012, students from Riga Technical University also participate in these Olympiads and get award-winning places. Such Olympiads promote interest about mathematics among young people, develops cooperation skills between like-minded people, as well as, give an opportunity for pedagogues to listen to the opinion of the best students about teaching methodology of mathematics and to improve it.
Highlights
There is much discussion recent years about teaching mathematics both at school, and universities
There is an international Olympiad of mathematics in Latvia already for 6 years, which is organized by the Department of Mathematics of Latvia University of Agriculture
Latvia University of Agriculture, to promote the attractiveness to the studies of mathematics among young people, for the last six years has an international Olympiad for students, which is organized by the Department of Mathematics
Summary
There is much discussion recent years about teaching mathematics both at school, and universities. Mathematics in universities was viewed as a tool for a successful acquisition of other subjects, but a question about the use of the acquired mathematical knowledge in the professional actions of the specialists is becoming topical. Answers to these questions are being searched for: what is it that needs to be taught, and how it should be done so that the acquired knowledge is useful for the professional work. Latvia University of Agriculture, to promote the attractiveness to the studies of mathematics among young people, for the last six years has an international Olympiad for students, which is organized by the Department of Mathematics. This Olympiad is one of the activities, which follows from an international cooperation agreement in the sciences that was signed between deans of the University of Siauliai, Faculty of Mathematics and Information Technologies and Latvia University of Agriculture, Faculty of Information Technologies on 14th December, 2012
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