Incorporating Computer Experimentation into an Upper Division Mathematics Curriculum

认识到在数学课程中更强调主动和合作学习以及更强调探究和发现的必要性，数学系设定了将计算机实验室经验引入高年级数学课程的目标。该项目的两个主要目标是：1)确保所有数学专业的学生都有机会发展实验和计算技能，以便在以后的课程和广泛的职业环境中取得成功；2)确保非数学专业的科学、工程和技术专业的学生有更好的机会了解数学对他们所选学科的影响。目前，我们的本科计算机实验室设备不足以达到期望的增强，这已经在我们的第一步中看到了，在微分方程的第一门课程中集成了计算机实验组件。数学系希望在未来两年内，在概率、傅立叶分析和微分方程的其他课程中也实施计算机实验。这些课程预计将在未来两年发生重大变化。为此目的，数学系寻求对其现有设备进行重大升级的支持。

Recognizing the need for a greater emphasis on active and collaborative learning and a greater emphasis on inquiry and discovery in the mathematics curriculum, the Department of Mathematics has set the objective of introducing computer laboratory experiences into several upper division mathematics courses. Two major goals of this project are 1) to ensure that all mathematics majors have the opportunity to develop the experimental and computational skills required for success in later course work and in a broad range of career settings, and 2) to ensure that Science, Engineering and Technology students with majors outside mathematics have a better opportunity to understand the way that mathematics affects their chosen discipline. At present our undergraduate computer lab facility is inadequate for the desired enhancements This has already been seen in our first step, the integration of a computer experimentation component in the first course in differential equations. The Department of Mathematics wishes to also implement computer experimentation in additional courses in Probability, Fourier Analysis, and Differential Equations during the next two years. Significant changes are envisioned in these courses in the next two years. To this end, the Department of Mathematics seeks support for a major upgrade of its currently available equipment.