Title | The Future of College Mathematics [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a Conference/Workshop on the First Two Years of College Mathematics / edited by Anthony Ralston, Gail S. Young |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1983 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5510-9 |
Descript | 278 p. online resource |
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 โ 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