The Design and Discussion of Elite Education in College Mathematics
Abstract:
With the development of human civilization, higher education has undergone a change from elite education to mass education. In China, this change is particularly obvious, and higher elite education has been impacted greatly. While Chinese middle school students have kept excellent performs in the International Olympic Mathematics Competition, no Chinese mathematician from main land won the Fields Medal. How to train creative talents and train mathematicians with historical mission? We think that one of the important ways is to develop elite education. This paper discusses the elite education of the United States, and compares the teaching tools, teaching books and other aspects of higher mathematics education between China and the United States. We propose in this paper four concrete solutions to elite education under mass education. They are of reforming the teaching tools, enhancing students’ innovative abilities, expanding international academic exchange and adopting the tutorial system to undergraduate students. Through the four solutions, it can serve as a reference for the development of elite education in mathematics and promote the organic integration of elite education and mass education.
Keywords:
Elite education, elite mathematics, mass mathematics
pages:
179-182
DOI:
10.35745/icice2018v2.045
Year:
2018
Published in:
2nd International Conference on Information, Communication and Engineering (ICICE 2018)
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