The educational approach for introducing contemporary materials science research to high school mathematics

Abstract

We report a new educational approach for teaching students about contemporary Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) research. It describes how MSE can be introduced to high school students as examples for analysis in mathematical classes. We discuss, in this example, how such students are introduced to MSE materials preparation experiments by scientists from the Faculty of Technology at the University of Novi Sad. This kind of educational approach accomplishes at least two important objectives. First, students have an opportunity to learn about connections between Mathematics and MSE. Second, this educational approach raises chances of MSE being a possible choice of future profession for students. This is very important since most high school students are not acquainted with MSE as a profession.