SOME OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND STATISTICAL ASPECTS OF TEACHING DISCIPLINES OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE IN THE MODERN HIGHER SCHOOL
The article is addressed to teachers of mathematics, computer science, technical and psychological-pedagogical Sciences, applicants for degrees in these scientific areas, all interested in the problems of methods of teaching mathematics and computer science in modern higher school. The article is the result and generalizes many years of pedagogical experience in the higher school of the author and his colleagues, as well as psychological and pedagogical research and psychological and pedagogical experiments on students in order to justify the effectiveness of the introduction of new teaching methods in the educational process of universities, in which the author participated. The problems of teaching modern students mathematics and computer science are discussed. According to the author, the disciplines of mathematics and programming are the most difficult to study not only students of Humanities and socio-economic specialties, but also students of physical and mathematical, technical, natural Sciences. The theory of hemispheric brain asymmetry is used to explain and solve the corresponding problems. The author’s experiments (conducted several times in 1990 - 2010) reveal a significant predominance of the share of right-hemisphere students over all other types, even among future specialists in the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science. And this share of time is growing significantly. Modern methods of teaching mathematics and programming in most cases are designed for left-hemisphere students. Right-hemisphere students need other teaching methods. Hence the way to solve the above problems.