ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERING TO DETERMINE REVEAL INTER-SUBJECT RELATIONS BETWEEN MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER STUDIES

Abstract

The article offers an approach to generation of a conceptual model of the curriculum content for schoolchildren in form of a thesaurus and ontology which will allow using an adaptive collation and ordering of teaching information. The article discusses the possibility and experience of using ontological modeling and engineering for the conceptual description of school teaching. It contains description of the stages of building an ontological model of the subject area using interdisciplinary relation between mathematics and computer studies as an example. The article contains examples of classes and individuals of the school educational process and relations between them. It discusses advantages of ontological modeling of a subject area.

Development of the ontological model and entering data into the school database can help to identify interdisciplinary relationship between mathematics and computer studies. The database can be replenished with necessary data on an ongoing basis to keep the school data up-to-date. The application of ontological engineering methods will help to enhance the quality of school education due to semantic description of the subject area knowledge with the use of interdisciplinary approach in teaching.