Research On The Function Of Humanity Education In Universities' Mathematics Courses

Mathematics, as the dual gene of "Science " and "Humanity", is a fundamental cultural activity of human beings. However, the traditional universities' mathematics courses not only neglected to present the mathematical source, development and tendency, but also overlooked that the humanity in mathematics can help edify the university students' thoughts and feelings and exalt their qualities.This paper studies the universities' mathematics courses, comparing with the domestic and overseas status quo from the aspect of function of humanity education. And it expounds theoretically the problem from the perspectives of philosophy, history and sociology, making an analysis to mathematics courses' roles in humanity education and putting forward the main factors of influencing and deciding the function.At present, many respects of universities' mathematics courses such as goal, content, means, evaluation, etc. should be improved and two of the most urgent and crucial things are to change the view of mathematics education and to strengthen the classroom practice. On the foundation of the current universities' mathematics courses, it is of extremely necessity that we should establish a brand-new mathematics course, which aims at and emphasizes the roles of mathematics in science and humanity based on culture, other than instructing the pure mathematics knowledge with the characteristic of logical frame. In doing so, the function of mathematics courses will be embodied. Finally, the paper, in company with the course construction, carried out the practical research by means of the classroom teaching, the questionnaire, Internet and the case investigation.