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A two-hour hands-on workshop on an innovative interdisciplinary course in
mathematics for business students will be presented on Thursday, June 19
at the PNW section meeting at Whitman College by mathematician Richard
Thompson of the University of Arizona. The MAA is proud to be publishing
the course materials for “Mathematics for Business Decisions,” for it is
an important model of a mathematics department collaborating with another
department in the development of mathematics course materials. To learn
more about the course, go to the
Mathematics
for Business Decisions website. Thompson is the principle author of the
course, and he has seen the course grow from one section of forty students
five years ago to more than 1200 students per term today.
Participants will receive two CDs
containing all of the materials for the year-long course, a guided tour of
the course in CD format, and an extensive instructor training & resource
manual. Laptop computers will be provided for the use of participants
during the workshop.
This two-hour workshop, which is
funded by the National Science Foundation, can accommodate 10-12
participants and has a registration fee of $20. Since business mathematics
courses are greatly enhanced by collaboration with business school
faculty, we are especially interested in having business-mathematics
faculty teams from the same institution attend. To foster attendance by
business faculty, support for their lodging expenses may be available for
one night.
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