RESEARCH ACTIVITY IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION IN PRIMARY GRADES

Mathematics education in primary grades has a developmental character. The main tools by which students’ thinking was developed until now were word problems. The new educational needs of modern students require other tools, apart from word problems. Whit a purpose to develop their mathematical and creative thinking we have to use new tools that meet their needs. These new tools are the research tasks. The research tasks provoke a research activity, which the students in the elementary grades independently discover new ways of applying already acquired mathematical knowledge. As a part of research activities student can use variety of Al tools. The specificity of the research activity allows the development of a number of personal and learning-cognitive qualities within the mathematics education in primary grades. This article presents a general structure of a research activity that students can carry out and offers some Al tools for helping them.