Abstract:

The aim of the article is to assess the contribution of the scientific research method in the teaching of mathematics in high school. Modern teaching methods use constructivist approaches to education, which aim to make the student to be more involved in teaching, to participate in the teaching process, to be more motivated for independence, to discover new knowledge. The article wants to show that the aim of teaching is not only for students to acquire the required knowledge, but also to acquire other skills that may be useful to them in other areas of education and in further professional practice. The results of teaching guided by these approaches must be compared with the results of teaching guided by traditional methods. This article describes the results of the pedagogical experiment, which was carried out in order to compare the results of teaching conducted by the research method with teaching conducted by the traditional transmissive method. The experiment was performed at a secondary vocational school. The aim of the experiment was to show whether teaching using the experimental method will improve students' skills in solving mathematical problems and whether their mathematical knowledge will improve, compared to teaching led by the traditional approach. Standardized statistical methods were used to evaluate the data, the results of which are described in detail in the article. The article also discusses the results of the experiment and compares the benefits of both teaching methods and discusses the possibilities of their use in teaching. The conclusions of the article also discuss the question to what extent the scientific-research method can replace classical teaching, whether it is possible to lead teaching using this method completely or only as a supplement to classical teaching. The article also compares the results of the experiment with the results of similarly focused researches published in the scientific literature.

Keywords:

Scientific-research approach, constructivist, experimental method, results, skills, pedagogical experiment.