Abstract: Student lack experience and confidences after leaving school to apply mathematical knowledge to solve real life problems, as they need to utilize not only mathematical knowledge but also knowledge of other topics. Teachers therefore need to present mathematics in a broader context and encourage students to synthesize mathematics knowledge and other subjects of the curriculum to solve problems which is an integrated approach to mathematics teaching. In this paper, we will explain the benefits of integrated teaching, discuss integration approaches and models, and propose the five-step integrated teaching process. We will also present an illustrated example of using the five-step process in integrated teaching mathematics - biology through the “Genetic diseases in real life” project.
Keywords: Integrated teaching, interdisciplinary integration, teaching mathematics.