Pre-Calculus Instructional Computing Laboratory

正在为微积分预科学生开发一个教学计算实验室。该项目于1990年春季开始进行小规模试验，并将在技术-职业学院的合作下继续进行。技术-职业学院是一所两年制学院，许多学生从中转学到新墨西哥大学。目标是实施计算机辅助教学计划，强调合作学习作为微积分预科课程的一个组成部分，并积累关于学生数学背景、表现和态度的信息数据库。这将用于决定如何更有效地满足少数民族和其他经常在数学上有困难的群体的需求。

An instructional computing laboratory for pre-calculus students is being developed. The project began in spring 1990, with a small-scale trial and will continue with the collaboration of the Technical-Vocational Institute, a two-year institution from which many students transfer to the University of New Mexico. The goals are to implement use of a computer assisted instructional program with an emphasis on cooperative learning as an integral part of the pre-calculus level courses and accumulate a data base of information on students' math backgrounds, performance, and attitudes, which will be used in determining bow to more effectively meet the needs of minority and other groups that frequently have difficulty in mathematics.