Calculus Reform in Liberal Arts College

来自中西部地区25所合作文理学院的数学家将计划开发一门为期一年的主流微积分课程。这些学院是五大湖学院协会和中西部联合学院的成员。他们的课程将强调：基本概念；数字和图形实验，以更好地理解技术的力量和局限性；微积分在改变人们世界观中的作用；演绎法：演绎论证的写作艺术；应用数学作为一个创造性的建模过程。教学资源大纲，以创造一个精简和生动的一年微积分课程将包括：序列的实验室风格的问题；针对计算机/计算器的教科书式问题；应用程序模块;开放式问题；还有历史小插曲。

Mathematicians from 25 cooperating liberal arts colleges in the Midwest will plan to develop a one year main stream calculus course. These colleges are members of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. Their curriculum will stress: basic concepts; numeric and graphic experiments to better understand the power and limitations of technology; role that calculus played in changing people's world view; art of writing a deductive argument; applied mathematics as a creative modelling process. Outlines of teaching resources to create a lean and lively one year calculus courses will include: sequences of laboratory style problems; textbook type problems for computers/calculators; application modules; open ended problems; and historical vignettes.