Use of ICT Teaching-Learning Methods make School Math Blossom

Abstract

Our society often talks that their kids at school are taught using old educational methods. It is boring for kids and they lose interest in learning. New generation of kids are different – more provocative, intuitive, sensitive, mental, in some cases more aggressive than previous generations. That is what parents and teachers now see.Therefore the aims of nowadays education demand to choose educational methods promoting active process of cognition that develop skills of learning, creative use of knowledge, skills of self-assessment, cooperation, indulgence to different points of view. Interactive educational methods help to realize those tasks and provide cooperation among teachers and students.Our pedagogical experience for 20 years in secondary school, regular observation of students in lessons and out-of-lessons activities, teaching teachers as well as continuous contact with students draw us to conclusion that students interest to lessons of Maths raises if the lessons are organized by using interactive methods and ICT tools. Those forms of work promote better understanding of theme because they go “through the student”, they are not pressed from outside.The research shows that technologies make learning environment alive and more attractive. We show the preferences of ICT methods in teaching math as well as show examples how interactive educational methods and ICT tools are used in teaching Maths in schools in Latvia and how they promote teaching Maths.