Heurystyczna metoda G. Polya a umiejętność rozwiązywania matematycznych zadań problemowych przez uczniów klas trzecich szkoły podstawowej

Abstract

The dissertation concerns one of the heuristic methods of task solving - a method by George Polya. The above-mentioneddissertation concerns mathematical education realized at the first educational stage. Author's own research carried out for the sake of the dissertation were conducted among two study groups: teachers and pupils. The diversification of the examined respondents resulted in the division of the research into two separate research areas which underwent methodologically diversified influences. Two main research methods were applied - diagnostic survey and pedagogical experiment. The aim of the conducted survey was to obtain early-school education teachers' opinions on mathematical problem-solving tasks and the methods applied to solve them as well as to receive their feedback on the heuristic method of G. Polya. The aim of the experimental study was to assess the influence of the application of heuristic method of G. Polya on third grade pupils' ability to solve problem-solving tasks in elementary school classes.