Symbolic Computation in Undergraduate Science Instruction

Symbolic Computation is an emerging technology that offers a revolutionary way of presenting scientific principles to the current generation of students. There is a growing conviction among many science and mathematics educators that symbolic computing systems can be used to expose the underlying principles of their disciplines more convincingly than exercises found in current standard texts.

The pedagogical objectives of this project were to develop courses and course materials through which the fundamental principles of science can be thought in an active teaching/learning environment and to evaluate the impact of symbolic computing on
retention by students.

the Fund for the Improvement of PostSecondary Education

(FIPSE grant P116B30079)

and the W.M. Keck Foundation