Study On The Inquiry And Reform About Mathematics Teaching In Liuzhou Higher Professional Colleges

Professional Education is an important part of Chinese Higher Education, while the mode of Higher mathematics education is so different from other types. The writer himself has been teaching mathematics in higher professional college, realizing that his teaching level has been updating, the teaching experience has become rich and teaching approaches have been improved, yet the teaching effects are not so satisfying. Such puzzles are very common among the mathematics teaches in other higher professional colleges in Liuzhou. What is the problem? Therefore the writer tried to get a thorough understanding of the status of the mathematics teaching and learning in the professional colleges in Liuzhou by creating questionnaires aiming at students and teachers, and sample survey methods. Based on the inquiry and the characteristics of educational aims of teaching , the writer put forward the perspectives on the textbooks, syllabus, classroom teaching models, the nurturing of the students'interests, the curriculum, the assessment/evaluation and the teachers development.The mathematics textbooks in Higher Professional colleges should be basic, practical, applied, various and perspective, rather than just a subject or of intermediate professional model. The textbooks should be innovative and popular and easy to the students. Teaching content should be related to the professional knowledge.Higher Professional mathematics should enable the students to participate in the teaching process. Inquiry teaching models, or the models of both the inquiry and lecture, or the combination of the two are encouraged. Situations should be created to attract the students to think and do things in the teaching process. At the same time, it should be made clear that the teaching models are not eternal, should not be treated a steady procedure. It changes with the development of education and science. New concepts and inspirations should be embedded. Effective learning environment depends on the harmonious teacher-student relationship. Mathematical culture education, encouragement and confidence building etc. are helpful for developing students'interests of learning mathematics.The higher professional mathematics assessment/evaluation should be"Indispensible and Adequate"so that such functions as examination, judgement, evaluation the guidance to the instruction, feedback and encouragement would be enabled. Teachers of the higher professional mathematics should renovate the notions of assessment, fulfilling the shifting from the test-oriented education to the quality-oriented education, from the simple assessment on to multiple assessment, from elitism to popularity . Students'knowledge applying, learners'autonomy and problem-solving abilities could be enhanced by the direction of the new assessment model.Mathematics teachers in higher professional colleges should be versatile. The"versatile mathematics teacher"refers to those who can teach both mathematics and use mathematical software. Namely, Mathematics teachers in higher professional colleges should master the general mathematics, but also know how to solve the problem with the applied mathematical softwares. It is suggested that Mathematics teachers in higher professional colleges must advance their own teaching arts, catch up with the trends in the mathematics educational area and strengthen the interaction between the colleagues.