ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY AFTER KHACHATUR ABOVYAN

The Chair of Mathematics and its Teaching Methods was reorganized in 2016 as a result of the merger of the Chair of Mathematics Teaching Methods, Chair of Higher Algebra and Geometry, Chair of Mathematical Analysis and Functions.

The staff of the Chair includes nine Doctors of Science, one academician, nine professors, ten Candidates of Science and ten associate professors. Ten theses have been defended in the Chair in the last ten years. Today, the Chair has three applicants and one PhD student.

More than 1000 scientific works and articles authored by the current staff members have been published in local and international journals, peer-reviewed journals.

The chair has also published math textbooks for elementary schools, algebra textbooks for primary schools, textbooks of geometry and higher algebra for high schools, monographs, methodological manuals and handbooks for teachers, a number of textbooks for universities, etc. The Chair also organizes seminars on Mathematics Education. From 2013 to 2018, the Chair organized six international conferences (“Mathematics Education 1-6”) which brought together specialists from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Slovenia and Ukraine. The materials of all the conferences were published in separate collections.

Employees of the Chair attended numerous scientific conferences in Armenia, Russia, Ukraine and Austria. The lectures of the Chair also participated and delivered reports in the International Congress on Mathematical Education. The Chair is actively involved in TEMPUS և ERASMUS+ projects funded by the European Union.

The main scientific directions of the Chair are:

• Values and their formation in mathematics education;
• The problem of improving the effectiveness of mathematics teaching in primary and high schools;
• Math teaching methods: innovative methods: collective teaching method;
• Integro-differential equation: Factorization;
• Boolean algebra and De Morgan functions: Theory of Quasigroups;
• Spectral analysis of differential equations of the membrane theory;
• Mechanics of deformable solid body, seismology, spectral analysis;
• Use of wave theory methods in transforming economic systems.

The Chair implements "Scientific and Pedagogical Bases of Mathematics as School Subject in the Context of the New Educational Paradigm” programme.

The Chair (previously called Chair of General Technical Disciplines, Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Processing, Chair of Mechanical Engineering, General Technical Disciplines and their Teaching Methods) was formed in 1959. The Chair was dissolved in 1967 and then reopened in 1969.

Laboratories of Electrical Engineering, Hydraulics and Heat Engineering, Machine Science and Mechanical Engineering, Robotics and Automatic Design System operate in the Chair.

The undergraduate and graduate students of the Chair do their academic and production internships at the factories “Interstanok” OJSC and Rusal Armenal CJSC.

The Chair collaborates with the Laboratory of Metallurgy and Materials of SEUA as well as Institute of Applied Problems of Physics SNCO of the RA National Academy of Sciences.

Lecturers and graduate students of the Chair periodically participate in conferences organized in Armenia and other countries, as well as in annual conference of ASPU and SEUA.

The main research areas of the Chair:

• Modern tool materials
• Physics of surface-hardening materials
• Development of binder systems used in diamond tools for stone cutting

The Chair was formed in June 2012.

The Chair focuses on the following research areas:

• Reforms in the education system: formation of the professional competence of Physics teachers at pedagogical universities
• Enhancing teaching of Physics and Natural Sciences at the Pedagogical University and secondary schools
• Reforms in the education system: Physics teaching strategies and methods in high schools
• Laser materials processing and examination of physical properties

The Chair was founded in 1987 within the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

Major contribution to the formation and establishment of the Chair was made by Mkrtich Sahradyan, one of the professors of the Chair, Candidate of Science in Pedagogy who headed the Chair from 1987 to 2009. In 2011, it was renamed Chair of Informatics and its Teaching Methods and was included in the structure of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics.

The Chair prepares specialists with Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Informatics, who can work at school as teachers of Informatics, as well as in different organizations and companies as programmers, computer networking specialists and information technology specialists. The Chair has two students seeking a Candidate of Sciences degree in Pedagogy (Methods of Teaching and Training (Informatics) ԺԳ.00.02)

The Chair actively participates in the informatization of the University, automation of education process, including creation of electronic textbooks and educational materials, as well as creation of professional database for the organization of distance education.

Today, the Chair has two Professors, ten Associate Professors, two Assistant Professors and three Lecturers. The lecturers of the Department periodically participate in seminars and conferences organized both in Armenia and in other countries.

The teaching staff of the Chair has published numerous scientific, educational and methodical works (30 academic and methodical manuals, around 200 articles).

Three PhD students and three degree-seeking candidates have defended their theses in the Chair.

The Chair has nine computer rooms equipped with modern computer technologies, electronic whiteboards, projectors and other devices necessary for the education process. The University has a LAN (local-area network) system, with all computers having Internet access.

The lecturers of the Chair deliver lectures and conduct laboratory and practical work for all BA and MA students attending full-time and distance learning courses in the Faculties of the University.

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