Computer Classroom Laboratory-Calculus for Everyone and Mathematical Modelling for the Life Sciences

一个网络化的计算机实验室教室专门用于本科数学教学。受影响的课程有两种：(1)该实验室每年用于教授约1000名学生的“计算机微积分”课程。本课程的目标是非技术专业的学生，可以替代大学代数作为非理工科学生的毕业必修课程。本课程介绍了微积分的主要思想，使用推导软件包来完成大部分的代数运算和绘制函数。(2)该实验室被用来教授一系列新的课程，包括微积分、常微分方程和数学建模，这些课程是为生物和生命科学专业的学生量身定制的。我们的目标是提高这些学生的数学背景，他们传统上只修了一个学期的多项式微积分课程。最初，每年大约有100名学生参加这些课程。

9452476 Bustoz A networked computer laboratory classroom is devoted exclusively to undergraduate instruction in mathematics. Two types of courses are affected: (1) The laboratory is used to teach approximately 1,000 students per year in a course entitled "Calculus with Computers." This course, which is aimed at non-technical majors, is a replacement for College Algebra as a graduation requirement for non-science students. The course introduces most of the main ideas of calculus using the DERIVE software package to do most of the algebraic manipulations and to plot functions. (2) The Laboratory is used to teach a new sequence of courses in calculus, ordinary differential equations, and mathematical modeling that are tailored to the needs of students in the biological and life sciences. The goal is to improve the mathematics background of these students, who have traditionally taken only a one-semester course in polynomial calculus. Initially, about 100 students per year take these courses.