The Future of College Mathematics Proceedings of a Conference/Workshop on the First Two Years of College Mathematics

The Conference/Workshop of which these are the proceedings was held frcm 28 June to 1 July, 1982 at Williams College, Williamstown, MA. The meeting was funded in its entirety by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The conference program and the list of participants follow this introduction. The purpose...

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Other Authors: Ralston, A. (Editor), Young, G. S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1983, 1983
Edition:1st ed. 1983
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Papers
  • An Overview of the Arguments Concerning the Development of a New Curriculum
  • Who Takes Elementary Mathematics Courses? Why? A Guess, and Some Problems for Change
  • Symbolic Manipulation and Algorithms in the Curriculum of the First Two Years
  • Problem Solving and Modeling in the First Two Years
  • The Mathematical Needs of Students in the Physical Sciences
  • Engineering Needs and the College Mathematics Core
  • The First Two Years of Mathematics at a University as It Relates to the Mathematical Needs of Students in the Social Sciences
  • Mathematics in Business and Management
  • Mathematics Curriculum and the Needs of Computer Science
  • Developing Mathematical Maturity
  • A Two-Year Lower-Division Mathematics Sequence
  • How to Cure the Plague of Calculus (or Revisions in the Introductory Mathematics Curriculum)
  • Principles for a Lower-Division Discrete-Systems-Oriented Mathematics Sequence
  • Statistics in the Two-Year Curriculum
  • The Effects of a New College Mathematics Curriculum on High School Mathematics
  • The Effect of a New Discrete Mathematics Curriculum on the Training of Teachers of Mathematics
  • The Impact of a New Curriculum on Remedial Mathematics
  • Finite Mathematics — Then and Now
  • Problems of Implementing a New Mathematics Curriculum
  • Problems in Instituting a New Mathematics Curriculum at a University
  • Arithmetic in the Computer/Calculator Age
  • Workshop Reports
  • A Lower-Division Mathematics Curriculum Consisting of a Year of Calculus and a Year of Discrete Mathematics
  • An Integrated Two-Year Curriculum
  • Implementation