Computer-Assisted Interactive Calculus at Virginia Wesleyan College

托马斯·R·范尼应在9550934财年支付弗吉尼亚卫斯理学院28,083美元，诺福克，弗吉尼亚州23502 ILI-仪器项目：数学标题：弗吉尼亚卫斯理学院的计算机辅助交互微积分弗吉尼亚卫斯理学院数学和计算机科学系目前正在将源自微积分改革运动的许多创新想法纳入自己的课程，并正在从更传统的教学方法转向那些在课堂上进行更多实验和发现的方法。该系由六名全职教师和几名辅导员组成，通过其入门课程的小部分以及数学和计算机科学专业的少量但有才华的专业，为相当大一部分学生提供服务。近年来，该系一直在紧跟改革努力，倡导让学生对数学更相关、更有趣的经验，并已开始在其课堂上采用这些想法，部分是通过使用图形计算器和计算机软件。它现在正准备采取另一步措施，在微积分和微积分的基础上，开设模仿自然科学的实验室课程。该部门正在申请资助，以创建一个实验室教室，用于数学、物理和计算机科学课程的动手、计算机增强教学。这个房间将配备一个由13个奔腾微型计算机工作站组成的网络，一个中央文件服务器，一个彩色投影仪，以及原理软件教学工具Maple和MATHCAD。该会议室最初将作为所有微积分部分和选定的微积分预科部分的会议场所。该设施还将用于其他数学和科学课程的教师，最终也将用于教授大多数高级数学课程。VWC还与K-12地区的学校开展了辅导和辅导推广计划，这些学校可能会受益于这种计算机教室的提供。在这样一个技术先进的教学环境中，学院为这些高危学生提供的丰富课程将得到显著加强。数学系的成员也表达了对未来暑期数学讲习班的兴趣，这些讲习班向地区公立学校的教师介绍现代教学技术。

Thomas R. Fanney DUE 9550934 Virginia Wesleyan College FY1995 $ 28,083 Norfolk, VA 23502 ILI - Instrumentation Project: Mathematics Title: Computer-Assisted Interactive Calculus at Virginia Wesleyan College The Virginia Wesleyan College Department of Mathematics and Computer Science is presently incorporating some of the many innovative ideas stemming from the calculus reform movement into its own curriculum, and is shifting from more traditional teaching methods to those involving more experimentation and discovery in the classroom. The Department, which consists of six full-time teaching faculty and several adjuncts, serves a sizable fraction of the general student body through small sections of its introductory courses, as well as a modest but talented group of majors in mathematics and computer science. In recent years the department has kept abreast of reform efforts advocating experiences that make mathematics more relevant and interesting to the students, and has begun to adopt these ideas in its classrooms, in part through the use of graphing calculators and computer software. It is now preparing to take another step by offering, at the precalculus and calculus level, laboratory courses styled after those in the natural sciences. The department is asking for aid in funding the creation of a laboratory classroom to be used for hands-on, computer-enhanced instruction of mathematics, physics, and computer science courses. This room would be equipped with a network of 13 Pentium microcomputer workstations, a central file server, a color projector, and MAPLE and MATHCAD, the principle software instructional tools. The room would initially serve as the meeting place for all calculus sections and selected precalculus sections. The facility wou ld also be available to instructors of other math and scienae courses and would ultimately be used in teaching most upper-level mathematics courses as well. VWC also has tutoring and mentoring outreach programs with area K-12 schools that could benefit from the availability of such a computer classroom. The college's enrichment programs for these at-risk students would be significantly enhanced in such a technologically-advanced teaching environment. Members of the math/cs department have also expressed interest in future summer math workshops that introduce contemporary teaching technologies to area public school teachers.