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The MACMATC is an NSF-sponsored project involving Penn, Villanova, Community College of Philadelphia, Polytechnic, some Philadelphia high schools and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, that seeks to improve students' appreciation and understanding of mathematics by infusing math courses with real applications and other courses with mathematics.

Click here for a more detailed general description of MACMATC.

A SIAM News article in September 1996 discusses the NSF Mathematics and its Applications Across the Curriculum initiative.

Another SIAM News article about MACMATC in particular.

To contact MACMATC by email, click here .

A sample of activities currently in progress

1996-97 CCP
Precalculus 		Interdisciplinary
Math-Physics-Chemistry 		Mathematical
Thermodynamics

Cartographiometry


Mathematics of
Financial Derivatives
Shorter Modules

Imaging: Geometry of
Digital Spaces 		International Monetary
Policy 		Industrial Connections

Activities for the coming semesters

Mathematics for
Computer Science 		Scientific
Visualization 		Geometry for
Design

MATC meeting notes, June 12, 1997

For more information about the undergraduate mathematics programs at Penn, click here .