THE USE OF OBJECTIVES WITH ECONOMIC CONTENTS AT LESSONS OF MATHEMATICS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The article reflects the role of socio-economic changes in people’s lives and how these changes affected the school curriculum. The authors consider the issues of economic education and upbringing of schoolchildren, they turn to experts who deal with this problem. The article gives description of the basic economic qualities that schoolchildren should cultivate in themselves and that the school curriculum should help them develop in themselves. The practical aspect of this issue and the most difficult problems are considered. As a possible solution, the authors propose to introduce into the mathematical program the practice of economically oriented tasks that will allow schoolchildren to lay the foundation for a qualitative economic education and to prepare for an adult life.