Why Teaching Business Mathematics with Technology Might Be Very Important In Today's Mathematics Education

摘要

Mathematicians in industry need to have skills in formulating, modeling, and solving problems from diverse and changing areas. Our position, in this discussion paper, is that these attributes are also desirable for students on business courses and that, in this context, providing business problems for students to tackle using a spreadsheet can help to develop these sorts of skills. Our invitation is to other readers of this journal is to share their approaches to using technology in the teaching of financial mathematics.