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Name :	Mrs Alla Stolyarevska		Name:
E-mail:	stolyare@yahoo.com		E-mail:
Institution or Company:	Kharkov G.S.Skovoroda Pedagogical University		Name:
Department:	Informatics Department		E-mail:
City:	Kharkov		Name:
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Country:	Ukraine		Name:
Type of presentation:	Lecture :  25 minutes.		E-mail:
Conference strand and number:	ACDCA ,    Number: A04		Schedule:   Room:	Friday, 12h00   1340
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Title of presentation:	Combining the possibilities of Derive and Excel while studying bases of computer science
Abstract:
Our experience of teaching and learning of computer science at the Kharkov G.S.Skovoroda Pedagogical University shows that not a simple acquaintance with a package Derive, but also its wide use in practice, is the important constituent of a course "Bases of computer science" for the students of speciality "Mathematics" of physics-mathematics faculty. In the last decade, undoubtedly, there were various changes in the program of preparation of the teachers of mathematics, both deep, and insignificant. The acquaintance and use of the Derive package by the students were performed within the frameworks of the basic course "Bases of computer science", special computer science disciplines, and during passing the obligatory computing practice. A theoretical basis of a course was the textbooks and the methodical instructions prepared by the teachers of our faculty. As a result of the experimental work the course was developed, in which studying the Derive package and using Excel (with the elements of VBA programming) were combined. The course includes study of the following topics: the calculation of roots of algebraic functions; the calculation of integrals; and decision of the systems of linear algebraic equations and the tasks of linear programming; the mathematical modeling and new theories of learning. Theoretical material and the problems were submitted in an electronic textbook and were accessible to the students during performance by them of laboratory works. The peculiarity of the course is in technology: the students study to estimate an opportunity of the decision of the problem in the Derive package, and to carry out the verification of the received decisions numerically in Excel, with use VBA.