FORMATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL ACTION OF CLASSIFICATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN: LOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECT

Abstract

The article focuses on a problem of formation of the classification action in children of primary school age in the process of their development of mathematical content. The article reveals various approaches to the definition of “classification” from the point of view of different Sciences. Considerable attention is paid to the analysis of the operational structure of classification as a logical operation and as a cognitive educational action. The author comes to the conclusion that the action of classification is a tool for the formation and functioning of formed concepts in school children, and the harmonization of sensory and rational learning allows us to take into account the age-specific logic of thinking of younger students. Various types of tasks are called, but the issue of developing a comprehensive system of tasks and exercises to form the classification action in all subject areas remains debatable.