Faculty Workshops for Implementing Reform of Business Calculus

这个项目正在举办夏季研讨会，向大学数学教师介绍商业微积分的改革，使用由美国国家科学基金会哈佛微积分联盟开发的材料。讲习班的特点是使用图形计算器和计算机，由商业教授访问，小组学习等替代教学法，以及参与者带回家的具体课程和策略。在面向科学家和工程师的工程微积分改革取得长足进展的同时，传统的商业微积分却没有得到同样的重视。一个教授这些材料的地区教师联盟正在形成，以帮助加强整个地区的商业微积分教学。在MAA分组会议上正在进行后续活动。特拉基梅多斯社区学院的两年制学院教师参与了讲习班的教学和组织。

This project is holding summer workshops to introduce college mathematics instructors to the reform of business calculus using materials developed by the NSF Harvard Calculus Consortium. The workshops feature the use of graphing calculators and computers, visits by professors from business, alternative pedagogies such as group learning, and concrete lessons and strategies for participants to take home. While the reform of engineering calculus for scientists and engineers is making considerable progress, the traditional business calculus has not gotten the same attention. A regional consortium of faculty teaching these materials is being formed to help enhance the teaching of busiless calculus throughout the area. Follow-up activities are occurring at sectional MAA meetings. Two-year college faculty from Truckee Meadows Community College are involved with the teaching and organizing of the workshops.