Classroom Microcomputer Laboratories for Calculus, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra

孟菲斯大学数学科学系正在利用这个新的教学计算机实验室来指导微积分I、II和III、微分方程和线性代数等核心课程。这个序列有一个广泛的学生客户。数学和应用数学专业，包括所有职前中学数学教师，以及所有机械、土木、电气工程和工程技术专业的学生参加整个课程。其他至少选修两门课程的专业包括计算机科学、统计学、物理学、化学和生物学。每学期的平均入学人数约为500人。大约一半的学生是女性，20%是非洲裔美国人。该项目的目的是通过在每门课程中添加一个PC实验室组件，使该部门能够将技术与教学整合到整个序列中。两个计算机实验室的创建允许序列中的每个部分每周（或每两周，视情况而定）使用实验室，并确保最多两个学生共享一台机器。在整个课程序列中增加一个实验组成部分，可以使系里(i)更充分地将三法则纳入微积分课程，（ii）按照线性代数课程研究小组的指导方针使线性代数课程现代化，（iii）通过采用建模方法使微分方程课程现代化，（iv）为广大理科生在学术生涯早期提供坚实的技术素养基础。

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Memphis is utilizing this new instructional computer laboratory for instruction in the core sequence of courses Calculus I, II, and III, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra. This sequence has a broad student clientele. Mathematics and Applied Mathematics majors, including all pre-service secondary Mathematics teachers, and all Mechanical, Civil, and Electrical Engineering, and Engineering Technology students take the entire sequence. Other majors which take at least two of the courses within the sequence include Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. The average combined enrollment is approximately 500 students per semester. Approximately half of our students are women, 20% are African - American. The purpose of this project is to enable the department to integrate technology with instruction throughout the sequence, by adding a PC lab component to each of the courses. The creation of two computer laboratory rooms is allowing each section within the sequence to use the laboratory weekly (or bi-weekly, as appropriate), and ensure that at most two students share any one machine. Adding a lab component to the entire sequence of courses is allowing the Department to (i) more fully incorporate the Rule of Three in the calculus courses, (ii) modernize the linear algebra course along the guidelines of the Linear Algebra Curriculum Study Group, (iii) modernize the differential equations course through adoption of a modeling approach and (iv) provide a solid base of technological literacy early in their academic careers for this broad group of science students.