Mathematics Education And Teaching In Architectural Education

Architecture,traditional or morden,is in order to provide man with the best possible human environment,and the task of the architect is to give them the most real human concern.Typically mirroring humanity and constituting the nucleus of man’s many cultures,mathematics should be taught to students majoring in architecture to such a degree and in such a way that they know what they are learning and will be doing.This paper contains a discussion about what parts of mathematics should be taught to them and how,including a description of what our colleagues have been doing in this country and the world,what our students need,and what the building industry may demand to have.As a result of an extensive study of teaching textbooks and materials,and a systematic observation of mathematics teaching in the classroom,it is found that mathematics teaching for architecture undergraduates should change with social changes and changes taking place in the various disciplines,and changes in time,too.Based on these,it is suggested that the said teaching should keep pace with our quality-oriented education in general,guard against a systematic mathematics curriculum,but,instead,aim at the ability to apply what students have learned,the cultivation of humanity in them,and a natural and consequential enthusiasm for mathematics.This paper has as its objective the ambition to call attention to a mathematics curriculum for undergraduate architectural students that can better suit their future architectural activities,as supplement or replacement of the traditional calculus-emphatic teaching program.