| Abstract: | This article is the first of the two-part discussion of thedevelopment of a new Freshman Business Mathematics (FBM) courseat our college. Part I of the article describes the backgroundand history behind the course, and provides a theoretical frameworkfor the design of the course. This design involves studentsin learning and applying mathematics to real world problemsusing common business tools, in this case spreadsheets. Thisnew course is centered on the concept of building and interpretingmodels of data, but touches on many topics in statistics, pre-calculusand calculus. |
