НАУКОВО-ПЕДАГОГІЧНА ШКОЛА ВАСИЛЯ ОЛЕКСАНДРОВИЧА ШВЕЦЯ З ТЕОРІЇ І МЕТОДИКИ НАВЧАННЯ МАТЕМАТИКИ

The further development of Ukrainian school is impossible without a deep systematic study of previous experience, in particular, accumulated by Ukrainian methodological science. The development of mathematics teaching methods largely depends on the extent to which it is possible to combine the efforts of individual scientists who deal with the problems of mathematics education. The analysis of the scientific achievements of modern Ukrainian teachers, scientists, and educational figures is no less important in the context of the development of the national education system. This article substantiates the existence in Ukraine of the Vasyl Oleksandrovych Shvets scientific school of theory and methods of teaching mathematics and characterizes the key aspects of its activities. Researchers of the functioning of scientific schools agree that the most important condition for its creation is the presence of a significant personality, a true scientist. Reasoned evidence suggests that the Vasyl Oleksandrovych Shvets Scientific and Pedagogical School is actively working at the Department of Mathematics Teaching Methods at the Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University. From this scientific and pedagogical school, another scientific and pedagogical school of Professor Olha Matiash spun off, which is actively functioning and developing at Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University at the Department of Algebra and Methods of Teaching Mathematics. Preserving and multiplying scientific schools that support the image of Ukraine as a country with high scientific potential should be one of the priorities for the development of higher education in Ukraine. Each scientific and pedagogical school is highly motivated to develop methodological science. The aim of the following research is to study the activities of individual centers of Ukrainian scientists who are concerned with the problems of the theory and methods of teaching mathematics, in order to find out whether such activities can be considered a scientific and pedagogical school of mathematics teaching theory and methods by common criteria.