Abstract The article is devoted to the problems of creation and functioning of an educational mathematical park as an innovative platform for student research within the university environment. Mathematical parks are considered as unique spaces that combine scientific knowledge with aesthetic aspects, transforming mathematical concepts into interactive exhibits and art objects. The analysis of research papers and resources containing materials about modern science parks allowed the study to prove that the virtual educational mathematics park is a platform for the teaching and research activities of university teachers and students. The review of thematic publications is the basis for defining the conceptual and categorical apparatus and analysis, systematizing and summarizing existing experience, substantiating the theoretical foundations of the study, developing and implementing the author’s ideas. The article summarizes the definition of math parks and classifies them. The authors have identified two main types: landscape (real) and virtual educational math parks. Among virtual parks, the authors focus on two subcategories: 3D modeling and 3D printing, and virtual math laboratories. The potential of innovative approaches (landscape mathematical parks and virtual laboratories) to popularize mathematics among young people through the use of interactive teaching methods and applied research at the intersection of mathematics and computer science is studied. The types and didactic possibilities of virtual mathematical educational laboratories are described. The authors presented in the article two of their own projects, “Platonic Solids Mathematical Park” and “3D Modeling and its Use for Limb Prosthetics”, which took part in the competition “Budget of Public Initiatives of Vinnytsia City United Territorial Community” (Vinnytsia, Ukraine), one of which won the competition and was implemented. The article investigates the specifics of using virtual mathematical laboratories in the process of training bachelors of mathematics. The author’s mathematical sites created and implemented as virtual laboratories are one of the platforms for teaching and research activities at the university, meet the main criteria for the successful functioning of virtual educational mathematical parks: strategic focus, complexity, intensity, structuredness, connectivity and mobility. The authors’ idea allows us to harmoniously combine the past and the present: to visualize the outstanding achievements of mathematics by means of modern achievements in the use of digital technologies in education.
Kovtoniuk et al. (Mon,) studied this question.