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Abylkasymova Alma Yesimbekovna Head of the Chair Honorary Figure of Kazakhstan, Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor 86, Tole bi St., office 415  8 (727) 261-53-64 aabylkassymova@mail.ru

The Department of Methods of Teaching Mathematics (hereinafter referred to as the Department) was opened in 1942.

Periods of activity of the Department:
1965-1972 - the Department of Elementary Mathematics and Teaching Methods was headed by Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor B.S. Zhanbyrbaev;
1972-1977 - the Department of Methods of Teaching Mathematics was headed by Ph.D., Associate Professor M.K. Satbayev;
1977-1981 - the Department of Methods of Teaching Mathematics was headed by Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor B.S. Zhanbyrbaev;
1981-1983 - Department of Geometry and Methods of Teaching Mathematics was headed by Ph.D., Associate Professor M.U. Iskakov;
1983-1989 - Department of Geometry and Methods of Teaching Mathematics was headed by Ph.D., Associate Professor A.A. Bidosov;
1989-1996 - the Department of Didactics and Theory of Mathematical Education was headed by Ph.D., Associate Professor N.N. Zabezhanskaya;

From 2013 to the present, the Department of Methods of Teaching Mathematics, Physics and Informatics is headed by Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Abylkasymova Alma Yessimbekovna.

The focus of the Department: special subject and methodological training of future teachers of mathematics, physics, mathematics and physics, mathematics and computer science, physics and computer science, physics in English; conducting fundamental and applied research in the field of education.

For many years, the department has been training teachers in the specialties of bachelor`s, master`s, and doctoral educational programs:
1. 6B01501 - Training of mathematics teachers (5B010900 - Mathematics);
2. 6B01502 - Training of mathematics and physics teachers (since 2019);
3. 6B01503 - Training of mathematics and computer science teachers (since 2019);
4. 6B01504 - Training of physics teachers (5B011000 - Physics);
5. 6B01505 - Physics in English;
6. 6B01506 - Training of physics and computer science teachers;
7. 7M01501 - Training of mathematics teachers (6M010900 - Mathematics);
8. 7M01504 - Training of physics teachers (6M011000 - Physics);
9. 8D01501 - Training of mathematics teachers (6D010900 - Mathematics);
10. 8D01504 - Training of physics teachers (6D011000 - Physics).

All pedagogical practice of bachelors, undergraduates and doctoral PhD students in educational organizations is carried out under the guidance of experienced teachers and methodologists of the Department.

The department is staffed by leading scientists-methodologists of the republic, known for their scientific and methodological works both at the republican and international levels. Many employees of the Department are the authors of textbooks and teaching materials on mathematics for secondary schools and higher educational institutions of the country. Over the past ten years, the Department has been carrying out scientific research on program-targeted and grant financing of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan and on internal university projects.

The teaching staff has many publications in foreign scientific journals in the Scopus database, Web of Science, RSCI and have the Hirsch index.

Academic degree holders rate of the staff is 77%.

The department employs 31 teachers on a full-time basis, including 5 Doctors of Science, 16 candidates for science and PhD doctors, 10 teachers without a degree. Among them are doctors of sciences, professors - Abylkasymova A.E., Alimbekova G.B., Kaskataeva B.R., Kozybay A.K., Shuakaev M.K.; Ph.D. Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (hereinafter - c.p-m.s.) Professor Shokanov A.K., Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (hereinafter - c.p.s.), docent Esenova M.I., c.p.s., associate professor Zhadraeva L.U., c.p.s., Professor Kossanov B.M.., c.p.s., docent Tuyakov E.A., c.p.s., associate professor Sydykova Zh.K., c.p.s., Associated professor Iskakova M.T., c.p.s., docent Akhmetova O.S., , c.p.s., senior lecturer Nametkulova F.D., c.p.s., senior lecturer Isaeva G.B.,  PhD of Dr. - Nurmukhamedova J.M., Nurbaeva D.M., Ospanbekov E.A., Kyrykbaeva A.A., Erzhenbek B. and others. In addition, 13 teachers work at the Department on an hourly basis, including 2 Doctors of Sciences, 11 candidates of sciences, PhD, associate professors.

All teachers have basic education and/or professional retraining corresponding to the academic disciplines taught, and they regularly undergo advanced training in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Teachers of the Department participate in various national and international conferences, congresses devoted to the problems of improving both the school and university education systems. Undergraduates and PhD doctoral students studying and specializing in the Department are engaged in scientific research in selected educational programs. They also undergo scientific internships in universities near and far abroad.

On the basis of the Department from 1996 to 2010, for the first time in Kazakhstan, the Dissertation Council D 14.08.05 (hereinafter referred to as the Council) worked for the defense of dissertations for the degree of Doctor (Candidate) of Pedagogical Sciences in the specialty 13.00.02 - Theory and Methods of Training and Education (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry) chaired by Professor Abylkasymova A.E. Members of the Dissertation Council were prominent scientists from Kazakhstan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan. During the work of the Council, 181 dissertations were defended, of which 87 were defended on the methodology of teaching mathematics, 35 on the methodology of teaching physics, 51 on the methodology of teaching chemistry, as well as 8 one-time defenses at the intersection of specialties (mathematics and computer science).

For many years, the Republican methodological seminar "Didactics of Higher and Secondary Schools" functioned at the Department, at which the problems of the system of both school and university pedagogical education were discussed, as well as a preliminary discussion of dissertations.

At the department in 2016-2017. The Council for the defense of dissertations for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the profile 6D010000 - "Education (mathematics, physics, computer science, chemistry, biology, geography)" worked for a year, and since 2018 the Council has been working on the profile 6D010000 - "Education (mathematics, physics)", the chairman of the Council is Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor A.E. Abylkasymova. During the reporting period, 13 doctoral dissertations were defended in the Council, while all received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

The department deals not only with scientific problems on the methods of teaching mathematics, physics and computer science, but also on a number of topical issues of the development of the modern education system of Kazakhstan and Russia. Joint activities with Russian scientists have made it possible to publish many scientific publications, including:
- Abylkasymova A.E., Ryzhakov M.V. Kontseptualnye problemy sozdaniia i sovershenstvovaniia shkolnykh uchebnikov. Nauchno-metodicheskoe izdanie. - Almaty: Atamura, 2011. - 168 p.
- Abylkasymova A.E., Ryzhakov M.V. Soderzhanie obrazovaniia i shkol`nyi uchebnik. Monografiia. - Moscow: Arsenal obrazovaniia, 2012. - 224 p.
- Abylkasymova A.E., Ryzhakov M.V., Sedova E.A. Kontseptsiia funktsional`noi gramotnosti shkol`nikov: matematika i informatika- Moscow: Editus, 2016. - 220 p.
- Abylkasymova A.E., Ryzhakov M.V., Shishov S.E. Sovremennye tendentsii razvitiia nepreryvnogo pedagogicheskogo obrazovaniia. Monografiia.- Almaty: Atamura, 2017. - 272 p.
- Abylkasymova A.E. Sostoianie, problemy i osnovnye napravleniia razvitiia sistemy obrazovaniia v Respublike Kazakhstan. //Kollektivnaia monografiia "Vysshaia shkola v Rossii i za rubezhom: problemy i ih resheniia" (chapter 2, clause 2.5). - Ulyanovsk: Zebra, 2017. - P. 157-170.

Scientific cooperation with scientists in Moscow also made it possible to publish articles in scientific journals in Australia, Brazil, Venezuela, India, Iran, Italy, Mexico, and Turkey.

Today, the Department is a close-knit and actively working team with a high scientific and pedagogical potential, which allows us to train competitive specialists - future teachers of mathematics, physics and computer science that meet the modern requirements of higher education in Kazakhstan.