Computer Laboratory Classroom for Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum

一间计算机实验室教室正全天候专用于本科生的数学教学。通过该实验室，将加强教学，提供显著改进的微积分课程，这些课程主要由数学、工程和物理专业的本科生学习。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融入课堂，学生可以专注于主要思想，而不是大多数学生将其与数学活动联系在一起的常规代数操作。此外，还将开发多元微积分、常微分方程式和线性代数本科课程的实验版本。在秋季和春季的每个学期，大约12节一年级的微积分课程(每学期480名学生)将至少每周在实验室举行一次会议，更高级的四节课程(每学期160名学生)将在这个实验室专门授课。该实验室将为亚利桑那州立大学少数民族青年项目提供一个大大扩大的全日制设施，该项目的目标是增加来自传统上代表性较低的少数民族群体的数学和科学专业学生的供应。每年夏天，200名高中生将在这个设施中接受培训。

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.