Computer Laboratory Classroom for Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum

计算机实验室教室正在全职使用， 专门用于本科数学教学。 通过 实验室，教学将得到加强，提供 微积分课程的显著改进版本， 主要由数学专业的本科生参加， 工程学和物理学。计算机设备 将用于显著提高学生的概念 理解基本的数学思想。 通过 结合了计算机图形和符号代数软件 在课堂上，学生们可以把注意力集中在主要思想上， 大多数学生都知道的常规代数运算 与数学活动有关。 此外，本发明还提供了一种方法， 多变量本科课程的实验版本 微积分、常微分方程和线性代数 将得到发展。 每年的秋天和春天 学期，大约十二个第一年微积分课程的部分 （每学期共480名学生）将在 实验室至少每周，和四个部分的更多 高级课程（每学期共160名学生）将 在这个实验室里专门教授。在夏天， 实验室将提供一个大大扩大，全职设施 亚利桑那州州立大学少数民族青年计划， 其目标是增加学生的供应， 传统上代表性不足的族裔群体， 数学和科学。 每年夏天，200名高中生 学员将在该设施中学习。

A computer laboratory classroom is being used full-time and exclusively for undergraduate mathematics instruction. Through the laboratory, instruction will be enhanced, providing significantly improved versions of calculus courses that are taken primarily by undergraduate majors in mathematics, engineering, and the physical sciences. The computer equipment will be used to significantly enhance student conceptual understanding of the fundamental mathematical ideas. By incorporating computer graphics and symbolic algebra software into the lectures, students can focus on the main ideas instead of the routine algebraic manipulations that most students associate with mathematical activity. In addition, experimental versions of undergraduate courses in multivariable calculus, ordinary differential equations, and linear algebra will be developed. During each of the fall and spring semesters, about twelve sections of first-year calculus courses (totaling 480 students per semester) will meet in the laboratory at least weekly, and four sections of the more advanced courses (totaling 160 students per semester) will be taught exclusively in this laboratory.In the summer, the laboratory will provide a greatly expanded, full-time facility for the Arizona State University Minority Youth Program, the goal of which is to increase the supply of students from traditionally under represented ethnic groups majoring in mathematics and science. During each summer 200 high school student participants will be taught in this facility.