Using Graphing Calculators to Enhance the Teaching of Undergraduate Collegiate Mathematics

南阿拉巴马大学将在1996年和1997年的夏季为两年制和四年制的学院教师举办一系列为期四天的实践讲习班，内容是如何在大学数学中正确使用德州仪器的TI-85和TI-92图形计算器。其中两个讲习班将在1996年夏季举行，另外两个讲习班将安排在1997年夏季举行。讲习班的目的是使参加者参与发展一种知识框架，以便在微积分预科、微积分、微分方程、矩阵理论和初级统计学的研究和教学中适当使用图形计算器。这将通过让参与者通过pi开发的材料和让参与者创建自己的材料来完成。在完成其中一个讲习班后，参与者将能够：1)正确使用图形计算器，并解决这种使用涉及的技术和教学问题；2)回到自己的学校，带头在课程中适当地引入图形计算器；3)帮助建立两年制和四年制大学之间的联盟，以便在大学数学课程的教学中促进更加协调的努力。

The University of South Alabama will conduct during the summers of 1996 and 1997 a series of four four-day hands-on workshops for two and four-year college faculty on the appropriate use of the Texas Instruments TI-85 and TI-92 graphics calculators in collegiate mathematics. Two of the workshops will take place during the Summer of 1996 and two will be scheduled for the Summer of 1997. The purpose of the workshops is to engage participants in developing an intellectual framework for the appropriate use of the graphing calculator in the study and teaching of precalculus, calculus, differential equations, matrix theory and elementary statistics. This will be accomplished both by having participants work through material developed by the PIs and also by having participants create their own materials. Upon completion of one of these workshops participants will be able to: 1) make appropriate use of the graphing calculator, and address the technical and pedagogical issues such usage involves; 2) return to their home institutions and take the lead in the appropriate introduction of the graphing calculator into their curricula; and 3) help build a coalition between two and four-year institutions so as to foster a more coordinated effort in the teaching of collegiate mathematics courses.