Interactive simulations as an element of computer modeling for teaching natural and mathematical disciplines

Abstract

One of the most relevant educational and methodological problems is the improvement of learning efficiency in the context of modern changes that have both positive and negative impact on the process of education. The forced use of online education has many disadvantages, unlike the scenario when it should be the result of evolutionary changes in the world's pedagogical practice. At the moment, a positive aspect is that the introduction of modern information and communication technologies allows us to organize training at a different quality level. The possibility of using computer modeling and simulations in teaching natural and mathematical subjects and disciplines provides the pedagogical community with a powerful tool that can help students not only get a pre-made simplified model for visualizing a certain process or law, but also provides them with a powerful apparatus for studying the material and independent research work.

This paper emphasizes that the use of computer modeling and simulations has a positive impact on the effectiveness of the educational process, as it simplifies the way to master the relevant information of natural and mathematical subjects and disciplines. This is mainly due to the fact that in classical education, the necessary information had to be received by the student, understood, analyzed, processed, and based on the results of such activities, in turn, a corresponding model was created in the imagination and understanding.

The disadvantage of this process was that if errors were made at many stages, the resulting model could be incorrect, which would require correction. The use of computer modeling and simulations allows to ensure the availability of the required result from the very beginning, which allows to save time, which is used for a deeper understanding of the same process or phenomenon.

The aim of this work is to analyze various computer modeling and simulation tools that are available for teaching and learning physics and provide opportunities for research. In accordance with this goal, we have considered services that allow the use of simulations in the educational process that correspond to both different sections of physics and different levels of training of students.