Importance of mathematical modeling in teaching mathematics
International Journal of Development Research
Importance of mathematical modeling in teaching mathematics
Received 04th June, 2017; Received in revised form 08th July, 2017; Accepted 17th August, 2017; Published online 30th September, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Selahattin Gültekin and Alimzhan Kalbekov. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Today, in engineering departments, mathematics courses such as calculus, linear algebra and differential equations are taught by mathematicians. Therefore, in their classroom teaching there are few or no applications of the concepts to real world problems. Most of the times, students do not know whether the concepts or rules taught in these courses will be used extensively in their majors or not. This situation holds true for all engineering disciplines. The real-life application of mathematics will be appreciated by students when mathematical modeling of real world problems are tackled. In this paper some mathematical concepts are chosen and their applications to real-life problems are emphasized along with mathematical modeling for applications of mathematics.
