Using Computers in Teaching Calculus and Differential Equations

计算机教室/实验室被用来让学生尽可能从几何的角度研究课题。学生们利用计算机和他们的直觉来发展对概念的理解和发现定理。当解析方法不能得到封闭解时，采用数值方法得到近似解。学生们被少量地展示如何使用True Basic编程语言，并被要求编写程序来完成各种有意义的任务。运行True Basic和derived的Unisys个人工作站是实验室中的主要工具。

A computer classroom/laboratory is being used to allow students to examine topics from a geometric point of view whenever possible. Students are using the computer and their intuition to develop an understanding of concepts and to discover theorems. When analytic methods fail to yield a closed form solution, numerical methods are used to obtain an approximate solution. Students are shown, in small doses, how to use the True Basic programming language and are required to write programs to accomplish a wide range of meaningful tasks. Unisys Personal Workstations running True Basic and Derive are the principal tools in the laboratory.