Computer-Assisted Interactive Calculus at Virginia Wesleyan College

弗吉尼亚卫斯理学院的计算机辅助交互式微积分

• 批准号: 9550934
• 负责人: Thomas Fanney
• 金额: $ 2.81万
• 依托单位: Virginia Wesleyan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-09-01 至 1997-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9550934&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Computer; Assisted; Interactive; Calculus; Virginia

Thomas R. Fanney DUE 9550934 Virginia Wesleyan College FY1995 $ 28,083 Norfolk, VA 23502 ILI - Instrumentation Project: Mathematics Title: Computer-Assisted Interactive Calculus at Virginia Wesleyan College The Virginia Wesleyan College Department of Mathematics and Computer Science is presently incorporating some of the many innovative ideas stemming from the calculus reform movement into its own curriculum, and is shifting from more traditional teaching methods to those involving more experimentation and discovery in the classroom. The Department, which consists of six full-time teaching faculty and several adjuncts, serves a sizable fraction of the general student body through small sections of its introductory courses, as well as a modest but talented group of majors in mathematics and computer science. In recent years the department has kept abreast of reform efforts advocating experiences that make mathematics more relevant and interesting to the students, and has begun to adopt these ideas in its classrooms, in part through the use of graphing calculators and computer software. It is now preparing to take another step by offering, at the precalculus and calculus level, laboratory courses styled after those in the natural sciences. The department is asking for aid in funding the creation of a laboratory classroom to be used for hands-on, computer-enhanced instruction of mathematics, physics, and computer science courses. This room would be equipped with a network of 13 Pentium microcomputer workstations, a central file server, a color projector, and MAPLE and MATHCAD, the principle software instructional tools. The room would initially serve as the meeting place for all calculus sections and selected precalculus sections. The facility wou ld also be available to instructors of other math and scienae courses and would ultimately be used in teaching most upper-level mathematics courses as well. VWC also has tutoring and mentoring outreach programs with area K-12 schools that could benefit from the availability of such a computer classroom. The college's enrichment programs for these at-risk students would be significantly enhanced in such a technologically-advanced teaching environment. Members of the math/cs department have also expressed interest in future summer math workshops that introduce contemporary teaching technologies to area public school teachers.

Thomas R. Fanney DUE 9550934 弗吉尼亚卫斯理学院 FY1995 $ 28,083 Norfolk, VA 23502 ILI - 仪器项目：数学 标题：弗吉尼亚卫斯理学院的计算机辅助交互式微积分 弗吉尼亚卫斯理学院数学与计算机科学系目前正在将源于微积分改革运动的许多创新想法中的一些融入到自己的课程中 课程，并且正在从更传统的教学方法转向在课堂上进行更多实验和发现的方法。 该系由六名全职教师和几名兼职教师组成，通过一小部分的入门课程为相当大一部分学生提供服务，同时也为一小部分数学和计算机科学专业的学生提供服务。 近年来，该系一直紧跟改革努力，倡导让数学对学生更有意义、更有趣的经验，并开始在课堂上采用这些想法，部分是通过使用图形计算器和计算机软件。 现在，它正准备采取进一步措施，在初级微积分和微积分水平上提供仿照自然科学风格的实验室课程。 该部门正在寻求资助建立一个实验室教室，用于数学、物理和计算机科学课程的计算机增强实践教学。 这个房间将配备一个由 13 个奔腾微计算机工作站组成的网络、一个中央文件服务器、一台彩色投影仪以及主要软件教学工具 MAPLE 和 MATHCAD。 该房间最初将作为所有微积分部分和选定的微积分基础部分的聚会场所。 该设施也可供其他数学和科学课程的教师使用，并且最终也将用于教授大多数高级数学课程。 VWC 还与地区 K-12 学校开展辅导和辅导外展计划，这些学校可以从此类计算机教室的可用性中受益。 在这样一个技术先进的教学环境中，学院为这些高危学生提供的丰富课程将得到显着加强。 数学/计算机系的成员也对未来的夏季数学研讨会表示了兴趣，这些研讨会向地区公立学校教师介绍当代教学技术。