Mathematical Sciences: Curriculum Development for Freshman Level Combinatorics

该项目将支持课程开发， 组合学课程的集合，将提供给 密歇根大学一年级的学生 这些课程 将提供一个替代微积分作为第一课程， 大学阶段的数学。 它们被设计成 具有挑战性的课程，强调实验和发现， 学习的交通工具。 本课程开发的目标 努力包括：（1）发展批判性和独立的 数学思维的学生在他们的数学早期 （2）创造一种新的替代视觉， 数学，指出其实验方面;（3） 对数学产生的兴奋， 在本科阶段学习。

This project will support curriculum development for a collection of combinatorics courses which will be offered to first-year students at the University of Michigan. These courses will offer an alternative to calculus as first courses in mathematics at the college level. They are designed to be challenging courses which stress experimentation and discovery as vehicles for learning. The goals of this curriculum development effort include: (1) the development of critical and independent thinking by students of mathematics early in their mathematical education; (2) the creation of a new alternate vision of mathematics which points out its experimental side; and (3) the generation of excitement about mathematics by those beginning its study at the undergraduate level.