Calculus in Context

Information

• NSF Award
• 8814004

Owner

• FIVES

• Award Id

  8814004

• Award Effective Date

  9/1/1988 - 36 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  2/28/1995 - 30 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 710,255.00

• Award Instrument

  Continuing grant

Mathematicians from the Five College Consortium of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts will restructure the standard three-semester calculus sequence during the next five years. They will develop a new curriculum in which the four mathematical themes of optimization, estimation and approximation, differential equations, and functions of several variables will be stressed from the beginning. These major mathematical concepts will grow out of exploring significant problems from social, life and physical sciences. Dynamical systems, discrete time models, Fourier series and partial differential equations are some of the concepts which will be explored. The computer will be integrated into the curriculum as a basic conceptual device for structuring the way students think about problems and what it means to solve them. A national Advisory Board of mathematicians, a scientist, and an engineer will contribute ideas, and give overall guidance in the evaluation. Dissemination will be in the form of team-taught courses, weekend retreats, summer workshops for area faculty and high school teachers and publication of the curriculum. These instructional materials will be used at universities, liberal arts colleges, and high schools. The Five Colleges is providing significant cost sharing.

• Program Officer

  James H. Lightbourne

• Min Amd Letter Date

  8/1/1988 - 36 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  8/31/1993 - 31 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  Five Colleges Inc

• City

  AMHERST

• State

  MA

• Country

  United States

• Address

  97 SPRING ST

• Postal Code

  010022324

• Phone Number

  4135424004

• First Name

  Donal

• Last Name

  O'Shea

• Email Address

  doshea@mtholyoke.edu

• Start Date

  9/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  James

• Last Name

  Callahan

• Email Address

  callahan@emmy.smith.edu

• Start Date

  8/31/1993 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  David

• Last Name

  Cox

• Email Address

  dac@cs.amherst.edu

• Start Date

  9/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Kenneth

• Last Name

  Hoffman

• Start Date

  9/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Lester

• Last Name

  Senechal

• Start Date

  9/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

• Name

  Other Applications NEC

• Code

  99