COURSE SYLLABUS

Course Number: MATH6850
Course Title: NUMERICAL ANALYSIS FOR SECONDARY TEACHERS
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites: MATH2630 and computer familiarity.
Corequisite: 

Objectives:
To present an introduction to Numerical Analysis to teachers in secondary education.  Numerical techniques used to solve problems in science, business and other areas will be presented. A scientific computing package such as Matlab,
Mathematica or Maple will be introduced and used to demonstrate the numerical techniques learned.

Course Content (typical):
Mathematical Preliminaries---calculus, linear algebra, roundoff error, computer arithmetic. (1 week)
-- Solution of Equations in One Variable (2 weeks).
-- Introduction to a Scientific Computing Package (2 weeks).
-- Polynomial Interpolation (2 weeks).
-- Numerical Differentiation and Integration (2 weeks).
-- Matrix Computations and Solutions to Systems of Linear Equations (4 weeks).
-- Initial-Value Problems for Ordinary Differential Equations (2 weeks).
A Scientific Computing Package such as Matlab, Mathematica, or Maple willbe introduced early in the course and used to demonstrate the numerical methods studied.

Possible Textbooks:
-- John H. Mathews and Kurtis D. Fink, \emph{Numerical Methods using Matlab}, Prentice Hall.
-- Charles F Van Loan, \emph{Introduction to Scientific Computing}, Prentice Hall

Grading and Evaluation Procedures:
Homework, computing assignments, tests and final exam at the instructor's discretion.

Statement related to policies on unannounced quizzes and class attendance and participation:
Individual instructors have different policies concerning pop quizzes, class participation, homework grades, and attendance, which are announced at the beginning of the semester. 

JUSTIFICATION FOR COURSE AND JUSTIFICATION FOR GRADUATE CREDIT

	This course has been designed for secondary school teachers who are pursuing Master's degrees in education. Such students usually do not have the same preparatory background as mathematics majors and the course has been designed so that these students can receive graduate level instruction aimed for their specific background and needs.  In addition to these graduate students, education majors and fifth year students who plan to teach mathematics in secondary schools register for the course.  Credit for students who are not secondary education students may only be received by special permission of the mathematics department.  As we have done in the past we intend to flag this course as one which is not available to majors or graduate students in the area of science and mathematics.