Computer Laboratory Classroom for Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum

本科数学课程计算机实验教室

• 批准号: 9251008
• 负责人: Joaquin Bustoz
• 金额: $ 3.42万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-06-01 至 1994-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9251008&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Computer; Laboratory; Classroom; Undergraduate; Mathematics

A computer laboratory classroom is being used full-time and exclusively for undergraduate mathematics instruction. Through the laboratory, instruction will be enhanced, providing significantly improved versions of calculus courses that are taken primarily by undergraduate majors in mathematics, engineering, and the physical sciences. The computer equipment will be used to significantly enhance student conceptual understanding of the fundamental mathematical ideas. By incorporating computer graphics and symbolic algebra software into the lectures, students can focus on the main ideas instead of the routine algebraic manipulations that most students associate with mathematical activity. In addition, experimental versions of undergraduate courses in multivariable calculus, ordinary differential equations, and linear algebra will be developed. During each of the fall and spring semesters, about twelve sections of first-year calculus courses (totaling 480 students per semester) will meet in the laboratory at least weekly, and four sections of the more advanced courses (totaling 160 students per semester) will be taught exclusively in this laboratory.In the summer, the laboratory will provide a greatly expanded, full-time facility for the Arizona State University Minority Youth Program, the goal of which is to increase the supply of students from traditionally under represented ethnic groups majoring in mathematics and science. During each summer 200 high school student participants will be taught in this facility.

计算机实验室教室是全日制的，专门用于本科数学教学。通过实验室，教学将得到加强，提供微积分课程的显著改进版本，这些课程主要是由数学、工程和物理科学专业的本科生学习的。计算机设备将用于显著提高学生对基本数学思想的概念性理解。通过将计算机图形学和符号代数软件整合到课程中，学生可以将注意力集中在主要思想上，而不是大多数学生与数学活动联系在一起的常规代数操作。此外，还将开发多变量微积分、常微分方程和线性代数等本科课程的实验版本。在每个秋季和春季学期，大约12节一年级的微积分课程（每学期共480名学生）将至少每周在实验室见面，四节更高级的课程（每学期共160名学生）将专门在这个实验室教授。今年夏天，该实验室将为亚利桑那州立大学（Arizona State University）的少数民族青年项目（Minority Youth Program）提供一个大大扩展的全日制设施，该项目的目标是增加来自传统上代表性不足的少数民族的学生，主修数学和科学。每年夏天，200名高中生将在这里接受培训。