Studies on What Business Mathematics Should Be and How to Teach It in Order to Meet Social Requirements.

作为日本商科数学学会的研究项目，我们一直在研究什么是商科数学，以及如何向最近数学能力明显下降的企业管理、商业、管理信息和经济学专业的学生教授商科数学。1999-2000年和2001-2002年，我们获得了文部科学省的补助金，用于研究上述课题，2005-2006年，我们从社会需求的角度研究这些课题。1）通过对2,793名在大企业工作的企业家进行问卷调查、信息领域企业家访谈、企业家座谈等方式，了解社会对大学商业数学教育的需求以及商业数学在企业中的实际应用情况。我们分析了对上述问卷的回答，并证实了在商业中逻辑思维和采取数学方法是很重要的。2）我们检查了一本教科书的内容，该教科书为商业学生和专业课程（如会计，发现教材的内容和水平与大学日语基础教材基本一致。探讨了利用信息化设备进行非常规的商业数学教学的方法和教材，并检查他们的可用性给我们。4）我们开发了一些商业数学的材料，并通过我们在补助金购买的服务器在互联网上发布。

We have been studying, as a research project of the Japan Society of Business Mathematics, what business mathematics should be and how to teach it to students of business administration, commerce, management information and economics, whose scholastic ability in mathematics has remarkably dropped recently. We won Monbu-Kagaku-Shou's grant-in-aid 1999-2000, and 2001-2002 to study the above subjects, and won it 2005-2006 to study them from viewpoint of social requirements. We have gained following results:1)We sent out questionnaires to 2,793 businesspersons who are working in large companies, asked them to fill out the questionnaires, interviewed businesspersons who are working in information sector, and held workshops with businesspersons, in order to comprehend social requirements for education of business mathematics in university and the actual utilization of business mathematics in business. We analyzed answers to the above questionnaires and confirmed that it is important in business to think logically and to take mathematical approaches.2)We checked contents of a textbook which provides a grounding in mathematical and statistical techniques for business students and students on professional courses such as accounting, and found that contents and level of the textbook are almost same as Japanese elementary textbooks of university.3)We looked into ways and materials for teaching business mathematics which are not conventional and using information equipments, and checked their availability to us.4)We developed some materials of business mathematics and released them on internet by using a server which we bought with the grant-in-aid.