Mathematics Without Calculus

俄克拉荷马大学的教职员工正在为专业不需要微积分的学生制作、评估和传播一门跨学科的数学课程。微积分中的许多概念，如变化率，都被包括在内。目标是让学生欣赏数学的内在价值，让他们接触到数学的实际应用，并赋予他们分析和数学推理所需的定量和定性技能。这门课程不是对数学或其应用的广泛概述；相反，它侧重于农业、生物、商业、化学、工程、音乐、物理、政治科学和动物学专业提供的一些重要的和及时的数学应用。这门课程的一个主要特点是运用现代技术为学生提供基础工具，如图形分析，这些工具应用广泛，削弱了传统钻探和计算的作用。该项目的一个成果将是商业出版的文本。

Faculty at the University of Oklahoma are producing, evaluating, and disseminating an interdisciplinary mathematics course for students whose major does not require calculus. Many of the ideas from calculus such as rates of change are included. The goals are to provide students with an appreciation of the intrinsic worth of mathematics, expose them to real applications of mathematics, and empower them with the quantitative and qualitative skills necessary for analytical and mathematical reasoning. The course is not to be a broad survey of either mathematics or its applications; rather, it focuses on a few significant and timely applications of mathematics provided by professions from agriculture, biology, business, chemistry, engineering, music, physics, political science, and zoology. A key feature of the course is the implementation of modern technology to provide students with fundamental tools such as graphical analysis, which have broad application and allow a diminished role for traditional drill and calculation. One produce of the project will be a commercially published text.