A Computer Laboratory for Calculus

微积分计算机实验室

• 批准号: 9452137
• 负责人: Gary Towsley
• 金额: $ 4.19万
• 依托单位: SUNY College at Geneseo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-08-15 至 1996-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9452137&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Computer; Laboratory; Calculus

9452137 Towsley SUNY at Geneseo is a liberal-arts college with a significant portion of its student population enrolled in majors in Mathematics, Computer Science, and the various Natural Sciences. Calculus I is a required course in most of these programs and highly recommended in the others. To improve the effectiveness of Calculus I (and eventually Calculus II and III) a computer laboratory session of two hours per week is being added. The lecture session is being decreased from four hours per week to three. The goals of the laboratory component are 1) to enable the student to explore a wider variety of mathematical situations than are available to hand calculation, 2) to develop understanding of the concepts of the calculus through writing and exploration, 3) to present applications of Calculus which are too detailed for lecture presentation, and 4) to enable the students to use mathematical software such as Mathcad. To equip this laboratory this project supports the acquisition of 30 computers, networking materials, and software. Approximately 1100 students per year use the laboratory.

小行星9452137 纽约州立大学Geneseo分校是一所文理学院，其学生人数的很大一部分就读于数学，计算机科学和各种自然科学专业。 微积分I是大多数这些课程的必修课，并在其他课程中强烈推荐。 为了提高微积分I（以及最终微积分II和III）的有效性，每周增加两小时的计算机实验室课程。 讲座时间从每周四小时减少到三小时。 实验室部分的目标是1）使学生能够探索比手工计算更广泛的数学情况，2）通过写作和探索来理解微积分的概念，3）介绍微积分的应用程序，这些应用程序对于讲座来说过于详细，以及4）使学生能够使用数学软件，如Mathcad。 为了装备这个实验室，该项目支持购买30台计算机、网络材料和软件。 每年约有1100名学生使用该实验室。