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The Future of College Mathematics

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

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Anthony Ralston

    1. Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst, USA

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  2. Gail S. Young

    1. Department of Mathematics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA

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Table of contents (23 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Papers

    1. An Overview of the Arguments Concerning the Development of a New Curriculum

      • Anthony Ralston
      Pages 1-11

    2. Who Takes Elementary Mathematics Courses? Why? A Guess, and Some Problems for Change

      • Gail S. Young
      Pages 13-26

    3. Symbolic manipulation and algorithms in the curriculum of the first two years

      • Herbert S. Wilf
      Pages 27-42

    4. Problem Solving and Modeling in the First Two Years

      • William F. Lucas
      Pages 43-54

    5. The Mathematical Needs of Students in the Physical Sciences

      • Jack Lochhead
      Pages 55-70

    6. Engineering Needs and the College Mathematics Core

      • Isaac Greber
      Pages 71-74

    7. The First Two Years of Mathematics at the University as it relates to the mathematical needs of students in the social sciences

      • Robert Z. Norman
      Pages 75-80

    8. Mathematics in Business and Management

      • Stanley Zionts
      Pages 81-87

    9. Mathematics Curriculum and the Needs of Computer Science

      • William L. Scherlis, Mary Shaw
      Pages 89-97

    10. Developing Mathematical Maturity

      • Lynn Arthur Steen
      Pages 99-110

    11. A Two-Year Lower-Division Mathematics Sequence

      • D. Bushaw
      Pages 111-119

    12. How to Cure the Plague of Calculus (or Revisions in the Introductory Mathematics Curriculum)

      • Fred S. Roberts
      Pages 121-133

    13. Principles for a Lower-Division Discrete-Systems-Oriented Mathematics Sequence

      • Alan Tucker
      Pages 135-143

    14. Statistics in the Two-Year Curriculum

      • Richard A. Alo’
      Pages 145-151

    15. The Effects of a New College Mathematics Curriculum on High School Mathematics

      • Stephen B. Maurer
      Pages 153-175

    16. The Effects of a New Discrete Mathematics Curriculum on the Training of Teachers of Mathematics

      • Julian Weissglass
      Pages 177-189

    17. The Impact of a New Curriculum on Remedial Mathematics

      • Donald J. Albers
      Pages 191-199

    18. Finite Mathematics — Then and Now

      • John G. Kemeny
      Pages 201-208

    19. Problems of Implementing a New Mathematics Curriculum

      • Stephen J. Garland, Donald L. Kreider
      Pages 209-221
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About this book

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 of the conference was to discuss the re-structuring of the first two years of college mathematics to provide some balance between the traditional ca1cu1us­ linear algebra sequence and discrete mathematics. The remainder of this volume contains arguments both for and against such a change and some ideas as to what a new curriculum might look like. A too brief summary of the deliberations at Williams is that, while there were - and are - inevitable differences of opinion on details and nuance, at least the attendees at this conference had no doubt that change in the lower division mathematics curriculum is desirable and is coming.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst, USA

    Anthony Ralston

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA

    Gail S. Young

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Future of College Mathematics

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a Conference/Workshop on the First Two Years of College Mathematics

  • Editors: Anthony Ralston, Gail S. Young

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5510-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-90813-7Due: 24 January 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-5512-3Published: 01 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-5510-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 278

  • Topics: Mathematics, general, Science Education

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