Using the method of expedient tasks for the recovery of educational losses of students in mathematics

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of finding ways to overcome the educational losses in mathematic. The article confirms the relevance of the research problem, since the educational losses (learning losses) that occurred as a result of the closure of schools throughout Ukraine with the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic and the sharp transition to distance education, then deepened after the start of a full-scale war against russia. An analysis was made of how educational losses were compensated in the pre-war period abroad and in Ukrainian schools. It was found out that now the mechanisms for making up for learning losses, which were proposed by experts, have not become widespread because the state does not have the funds to finance them. The characteristic features of using the method of expedient problems are considered. The possibility of using this method to compensate for the students' learning losses in mathematics at various stages of the educational process has been determined. The peculiarities of using the method of expedient tasks for motivating the study of new topics, as well as preparing for the study of new theoretical knowledge and methods of activity during overcoming educational losses, have been clarified. The article describes the peculiarities of using the "key tasks" method for the formation of students' ability to use new theoretical knowledge in practice. Attention is drawn to the fact that the use of the method of expedient tasks contributes to the realization of intra-subject obligations: information-content and operational-activity, which contributes to the formation of systematic knowledge of students in mathematics and helps them to effectively make up for "lost" knowledge. We see the prospects for further research in the context of compensation for educational losses by determining the specifics of using the method of expedient problems to form students a complete system of general approaches to solving any mathematical or applied problem.