INCREASING STUDENTS' MOTIVATION EXAMPLE FORM DISCRETE MATHEMATICS

摘要

In mathematics education, especially for engineering students, two main problems occur, the first one being unfamiliarity with the language of mathematics, the second one being students' motivation. Very often students, especially engineering ones, perceive mathematics as an obstacle to their engineering degree, which results in surface learning. The contribution deals with one example of a part of a discrete mathematics course that can serve well to increase motivation of students to work with mathematical notions and develop some mathematical competencies. Experience from teaching discrete mathematics course for 1st and 2nd year students is given.