Electronic Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Houston, Texas, November 16-19, 1995

Paper C055

A Modern Approach to Differential Equations

Martha L. Abell


Department of Mathematics and C.S.
Georgia Southern University
L.B. 8093
Statesboro, GA 30460
USA
Phone: (912) 681-0367
Fax: (912) 681-0654

James P. Braselton


Department of Mathematics and C.S.
Georgia Southern University
L.B. 8093
Statesboro, GA 30460
USA
Phone: (912) 681-0367
Fax: (912) 681-0654


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ABSTRACT

Technology has changed the ways in which we teach ordinary differential equations. We encourage students to understand what solutions mean and how differential equations can be used to answer pertinent questions by using computer laboratories and demonstrations, experimental problems in which students are asked to make conjectures, and applications projects.

Keyword(s): differential equations, computer labs, applications