Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Chicago, Illinois, March 11-14, 2010

Paper S118

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Scientific Computation 101

Adam O. Hausknecht

University of Massachusetts�Dartmouth

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ABSTRACT

To improve our undergraduate mathematics program, the presenter developed a project-based 200-level scientific computation course for our majors. This course makes use of free/open-source software rather than commercial packages so that students can install the software on their own computers and work on projects outside of the classroom. Several department members have also integrated open-source mathematics software packages into calculus, differential equations, and abstract algebra courses. The presenter will discuss our new scientific computation course and present examples of using TEMATH, Octave, Sage, and Visual Python in all of these courses.

Keyword(s): software