Provision of mathematical prerequisites to students in humanities at the Federal University of Yakutia

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to reveal the problems of studying mathematics by students of the humanities and specialties, using the example of students of the Faculty of Philology and the Institute of Foreign Philology and Regional Studies of the Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University and describe the experience of teaching mathematics, contributing to the formation of general cultural competencies focused on the use of mathematical methods in professional activities. A sociological study was carried out in the form of a written survey of students and conversations with teachers of the Faculty of Philology and the Institute of Foreign Philology and Regional Studies, covering 114 students and 4 teachers. Based on the results of the study, the authors summed up the possibility of spreading this experience, using the proposed educational and methodological complex in other humanitarian areas and specialties.