THE USE OF COGNITIVE TASKS IN TEACHING MATHEMATICS TO FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS OF A PEDAGOGICAL COLLEGE

The article deals with the development of cognitive abilities in teaching mathematics to students of a pedagogical college specializing in teaching in elementary grades. Cognitive abilities were considered in the article as individual psychological features of the processes of attention, perception, memory, and thinking. To solve the problem of developing the cognitive abilities of primary school students, along with teaching mathematics based on the cognitive-visual method, the tasks of analyzing educational programs, generalizing pedagogical experience, pedagogical observation, forming logical operations and converting empirical material into a mathematical problem are set. The main goal of cognitive training issues, considered in the specialty of teaching in primary classes, is focused on the formation of students' logical operations and includes the development of intellectual qualities of educational and cognitive activity. Cognition is a process of active, purposeful reflection of reality in the mind of a person.