Research oriented teaching reform of higher mathematics course in petroleum science

Higher mathematics is an important public basic course for the freshmen of science and engineering university. In order to solve the problem of traditional teaching, a research oriented teaching reform of higher mathematics course in petroleum science was carried out from the aspects of teaching cases design, classroom teaching, practice teaching, and assessment methods. The teaching reform was proven effective and successful by the teaching practice of freshman mathematical experimental classes of Yangtze University in recent years. It improve the students’ abilities of understanding and application the mathematical knowledge. It also helps students to learn the specialized knowledge in the field of petroleum science easier in the future.