Using Computers in Teaching Calculus and Differential Equations

计算机教室/实验室被用来允许学生尽可能地从几何的角度来检查主题。学生们正在使用计算机和他们的直觉来发展对概念的理解和发现定理。当解析方法不能得到闭合形式的解时，可以使用数值方法来获得近似解。通过小剂量向学生展示如何使用True Basic编程语言，并要求他们编写程序来完成广泛的有意义的任务。运行True Basic和衍生品的Unisys个人工作站是该实验室的主要工具。

A computer classroom/laboratory is being used to allow students to examine topics from a geometric point of view whenever possible. Students are using the computer and their intuition to develop an understanding of concepts and to discover theorems. When analytic methods fail to yield a closed form solution, numerical methods are used to obtain an approximate solution. Students are shown, in small doses, how to use the True Basic programming language and are required to write programs to accomplish a wide range of meaningful tasks. Unisys Personal Workstations running True Basic and Derive are the principal tools in the laboratory.