THE NEED FOR DEFINING THE COMPUTING COMPETENCY AS A KEY ONE

The article reveals the essence of competency approach in education as an effective factor in its renewal. Here, structural elements of the curriculum are determined, and the necessity of forming subject competencies that affect the comprehensive development of an individual is shown. In the article, the author takes into account the produced hierarchy of competencies (key, general subject and subject ones), demonstrating a relationship between key competencies and subject competencies. Based on analysis of Ukrainian scientificmethodical literature, works of scientists from neighbouring countries and European educational documents the author concludes that the computing component of the subject mathematical competence might be given a different status to that of key competency.