Discrete Mathematics and its applications
Discrete Mathematics and its applications
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DOI：
10.1093/teamat/hrq007
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发表时间：
2000-04
影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
Alan Oxley
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作者：
Alan Oxley
这篇文章提出了一些想法，本科离散数学课程的讲师可以采用这些想法，以使该学科对学生更具吸引力，并鼓励他们在该学科进行进一步的学习。可以在很少涉及或完全不涉及计算的情况下教授离散数学。然而，如果学生能够认识到一门学科的用途，他们就更有可能对它感兴趣。因此，结合实际情境教授离散数学是很有必要的。讲师面临着传授数学知识的任务，其中一些知识对学生来说是全新的，而一些他们之前可能已经接触过。讲师必须努力培养学生的数学技巧。所有这些都需要时间。结合实际情境教授该学科可以用很少的额外时间甚至不需要额外时间来实现。在众多计算机科学学科中，人工智能和软件代理在一些问题上尤其丰富，这些问题易于理解，并且需要数学来正式描述问题以及解决问题。
The article gives ideas that lecturers of undergraduate Discrete Mathematics courses can use in order to make the subject more interesting for students and encourage them to undertake further studies in the subject. It is possible to teach Discrete Mathematics with little or no reference to computing. However, students are more likely to be interested in a subject if they are able to appreciate its use. There is, therefore, a strong case for teaching Discrete Mathematics in context. Lecturers are faced with the task of conveying mathematical material, some of which is new to students and some of which they will have met before. Lecturers must attempt to foster mathematical dexterity. All of this takes time. Teaching the subject in context can be achieved using little, or no, additional time. Of the wide range of Computer Science subjects, Artificial Intelligence and Software Agents are particularly rich in problems that are easy to understand and for which mathematics is needed in order to formally describe the problem as well as to solve it.