Student Laboratories for Application Motivated Calculus

该项目将支持购买计算 这些设备将用于创建新的实验室 目前正在开发中的微积分程序。 是 在仪器和实验室项下提供资金 改善（ILI）计划，其目标是改善 本科课程的质量，通过支持项目， 开发新的或改进的基于仪器的本科实验室 和/或科学、数学或工程领域的课程。 在 具体地，微积分程序将使用（1）少量的 原型问题领域，以激励引入 数学概念，（2）基于探索的计算机 实验室，（3）写作任务。 的模式 计算机实验室实验将是发现学习 通过引导探索;实验室将允许学生 探索建模现实世界问题中固有的问题 并培养对一个函数的性质的直觉 和几个变量。 这些实验室的书面报告 经验将构成写作的主要部分 课程中的作业。

This project will support the purchase of computing equipment which will be used to create laboratories for a new program in calculus which is currently under development. It is being funded under the Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement (ILI) Program, which has the goal of improving the quality of the undergraduate curriculum by supporting projects to develop new or improved instrument-based undergraduate laboratory and/or field courses in science, mathematics, or engineering. In particular, the calculus program will use (1) a small number of prototype problem areas to motivate the introduction of mathematical concepts, (2) an exploration-based computer laboratory, and (3) writing assignments. The mode of the computer laboratory experiments will be discovery learning through guided exploration; the laboratory will allow students to explore the questions inherent in modeling real-world problems and to develop intuition for the properties of functions of one and several variables. Written reports on these laboratory experiences will constitute a major portion of the writing assignments in the course.