A Practical Study On Cultivating Students' Mathematical Ability During The Application Of The Senior High New Curriculum

Mathematical ability is the ability that is necessary for people to cognize, learn, and apply mathematics. It fulfils irreplaceable functions for people's cognition of the world. With the development of the age and the advancement of technology, people more clearly realize that the foundation of mastering mathematics is to acquire all kinds of essential mathematical abilities. Just because of this, all countries throughout the world attach special attention to cultivating students'mathematical ability. For the past many years, the curricular reforms of mathematics in all countries have continually strengthened the requirements of students'mathematical ability. In 2007, the new curricular reform of mathematics in China was fully implemented. During this year, in Jilin province, senior high students in Grade one began to use new course books published by the People Education Press (Edition A). The new curricular reform proposes a completely new concept of the mathematical education in senior highs, which will certainly have profound influence on the mathematical education in China. While being a student teacher in a senior high school, the author of this thesis experienced the process of implementing this reform, and made a research on and got familiar with the implementation of cultivating"mathematical ability"emphasized by the new curricular reform.In the opinions of this paper, after the new curricular reform, the mathematical courses of the Grade one in senior highs are more vivid, specific, emphasize the application of mathematics, and hence are more close to real life. Furthermore, the requirements of all aspects to teachers and students are higher. Teachers can understand the concepts of the new curricular reform, and apply these concepts to teaching with their own creativity. However, the previous basic exercises are usually neglected, which leads to the students'lack of basic knowledge and skills, and further influences the cultivation of students'ability. Furthermore, students cannot get used to the new semester, because the greatly higher requirements to students proposed by the new curricula reform and unsatisfying transition between junior and senior high schools.Focusing on these problems in the practice of the new curricular reform, this thesis puts forward such methods as attaching attention to both of laying good foundation and developing skills, verifying teaching aims so as to considering students at different levels, improving the developments of teachers in order to face the challenge of the new curricular reforms, actively adjusting through school-based courses, evaluating students from various aspects, strengthening the transition and harmony of mathematical courses between junior and senior high schools, and accelerating the reform of the entrance examination to colleges.