Development of “Let’s get hands on a math toolbox” as a “liberal science” subject

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  • FUJIWARA Natsumi
    Center for the Future Development of Education, Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University
  • NAKAZATO Ken’ichiro
    Division of Theoretical Natural Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, “Center for the Future Development of Education”, Kyushu University
  • HARADA Koji
    Division of Theoretical Natural Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, “Center for the Future Development of Education”, Kyushu University

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  • リベラルサイエンス講義「数理という道具を手に入れよう」の開発
  • リベラルサイエンス コウギ 「 スウリ ト イウ ドウグ オ テ ニ イレヨウ 」 ノ カイハツ

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Abstract

We developed a set of lectures named “Let’s get hands on a math toolbox” as a “liberal science” subject. In the lectures we focus on applications of mathematics to real-life problems, assuming only moderate “math at the high-school level,” with a few additional materials. We included programming practices in the lectures exploiting the “Google Colaboratory,” which is a cloud computing environment for Python. In this report, we describe the background of the development and the contents of the lectures, as well as the feedbacks from the students who attended the lectures, obtained by questionnaires and (online) interviews. Some issues are extracted from the feedbacks. We conclude this report with the future improvement and the prospect of the further developments.

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  • 基幹教育紀要

    基幹教育紀要 8 101-110, 2022-02-25

    Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University

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