2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog/Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Mathematics
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The Mathematics Department offers its majors an energetic and dedicated faculty who find the world of mathematics exciting and challenging, and coursework that provides them with opportunities to experience the wonders of mathematics themselves.
The Mathematics faculty is proud of their commitment to creative classroom instruction and active learning. Examples of these alternative educational experiences include the use of activities and projects, portfolios, group work and cooperative learning, guided discovery approaches to problem solving, outside mathematics activities, sidewalk chalk mathematics, writing about mathematics, reading and writing about mathematical literature, sending student groups to the blackboards, explorations using mathematical manipulatives, student presentations at conferences, innovative faculty-developed course materials in lieu of standard textbooks, community service, and technology. Many of these pedagogies, by requiring that students work together, help to create an inclusive, interactive learning environment where students develop important communication and interpersonal relationship skills.
Mathematics graduates work as teachers, actuaries, industry mathematicians, for government agencies, and in many other fields requiring their specialized skills. Our majors have gone on to earn graduate degrees in mathematics, statistics, and information technology. ProgramsCoursesMathematics
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