CRAFTY interdisciplinary workshops

Subject: CRAFTY interdisciplinary workshops
From: Bruce Yoshiwara (byoshiwara@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 20:43:52 EST

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Hi all

You may already know about the Interdisciplinary workshops being run by
CRAFTY (Calculus Reform and the First Two Years), a subcomitte of the MAA's
Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM). The workshops
bring together about 20 mathematicians and experts from other disciplines to
discuss what the non-mathematicians believe is important that their students
learn from their college math classes. Each workshop produces a report, and
CRAFTY will host a conference to tie together results from the various
workshops and make recommendations for a new curriculum for the first two
years of college mathematics.

Meanwhile, AMATYC is submitting an NSF grant proposal about mathematics
preparation for technicians, and a part of that proposal is to fund two
interdisciplinary workshops for tech fields. Actually "technical
mathematics" is not well-defined, but might include what is needed in
biotechnology, telecommunications, advanced manufacturing, information
systems, engineering technology...These two workshops should take place some
time this Fall, one at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College (VA) and the
other at Los Angeles Pierce College.

Do any of you have contacts in technical fields who might either want to
participate in such a workshop or who might be able to help me locate
prospective workshop participants?

Thanks.

Bruce Yoshiwara
Los Angeles Pierce College
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