Cultural Challenge: Teaching Mathematics to Non-mathematicians

A “mathematics for non-mathematicians” course, commonly known as a “service” course is an undergraduate mathematics developed students who are not (going to become) majors. Besides calculus, such courses may include linear algebra, mathematical reasoning, differential equations, programming and modeling, discrete mathematics, teachers, so on. In this article we argue that good, productive curricular design teaching of service happen through meaningful collaboration between instructor the department whose taking course. This ensures “non-mathematicians” see relevance learning their discipline (say, by discussing authentic problems examples), but also appreciate benefits which brings overall education skills set.