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，我们一直在研究什么是商业数学，以及如何向最近数学学术能力明显下降的工商管理、商业、管理信息和经济学专业的学生教授商业数学。我们获得了1999-2000年和2001-2002年文部-合乐院的资助研究上述科目，并获得了2005-2006年从社会需求的角度研究它们。研究结果如下：1)对2793名在大企业工作的商务人士进行问卷调查，要求他们填写问卷，对信息行业的商务人士进行访谈，并与商务人士举行研讨会，了解社会对大学商业数学教育的要求和商业数学在企业中的实际应用情况。我们分析了上述问卷的答案，并证实了逻辑思维和采用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学等专业课学生提供数学和统计技术基础的教科书的内容，发现该教科书的内容和水平与日本大学的基础教科书几乎相同。3)我们研究了非传统的、利用信息设备的商业数学教学方法和教材，并考察了它们对我们的可用性。4)我们开发了一些商业数学的资料，并使用我们用助学金购买的服务器在互联网上发布。

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.