Studies on What Business Mathematics Should Be and How to Teach It in Order to Meet Social Requirements.

作为日本商业数学学会的一个研究项目，我们一直在研究商业数学应该是什么，以及如何向最近数学学业能力显著下降的工商管理、商业、管理信息和经济学专业的学生教授商业数学。1999-2000年和2001-2002年分别获得文部-鹿角寿助学金用于上述课题的研究，2005-2006年获得从社会需求角度进行研究的助学金。研究结果如下：1)对2793名在大公司工作的商人发放了调查问卷，让他们填写问卷，访谈了在信息行业工作的商人，并与他们举办了研讨会，以了解社会对大学商业数学教育的需求以及商业数学在商业中的实际应用情况。我们分析了上述问卷的答案，确认了逻辑思维和数学方法在商业中很重要。2)我们检查了一本为商科学生和会计等专业课程的学生提供数学和统计技术基础的教科书的内容，发现教科书的内容和水平几乎与日本大学初级教科书相同。3)我们研究了使用信息设备教授非常规商业数学的方法和材料，并检查了它们的可用性。4)我们开发了一些商业数学材料，并使用助学金购买的服务器在网上发布。

We have been studying, as a research project of the Japan Society of Business Mathematics, what business mathematics should be and how to teach it to students of business administration, commerce, management information and economics, whose scholastic ability in mathematics has remarkably dropped recently. We won Monbu-Kagaku-Shou's grant-in-aid 1999-2000, and 2001-2002 to study the above subjects, and won it 2005-2006 to study them from viewpoint of social requirements. We have gained following results:1)We sent out questionnaires to 2,793 businesspersons who are working in large companies, asked them to fill out the questionnaires, interviewed businesspersons who are working in information sector, and held workshops with businesspersons, in order to comprehend social requirements for education of business mathematics in university and the actual utilization of business mathematics in business. We analyzed answers to the above questionnaires and confirmed that it is important in business to think logically and to take mathematical approaches.2)We checked contents of a textbook which provides a grounding in mathematical and statistical techniques for business students and students on professional courses such as accounting, and found that contents and level of the textbook are almost same as Japanese elementary textbooks of university.3)We looked into ways and materials for teaching business mathematics which are not conventional and using information equipments, and checked their availability to us.4)We developed some materials of business mathematics and released them on internet by using a server which we bought with the grant-in-aid.