1986 Tulane Conference
Ronald Douglas (the "father" of Calculus Reform), received funding from the Sloan Foundation
for a conference on calculus reform to "Develop Curriculum and Teaching Methods for
Calculus at the College Level".
This conference
was held at Tulane University in January of 1986, and is often credited with being the birthplace of calculus reform. The conference was to the reform movement what Euclid's The Elements was to mathematics;The Tulane conference served as a focal point for the reform movement which started in the early eighties via many different sources.
The focus
of the conference was overhauling both the content and pedagogy of calculus.
The result was a report, "Toward a Lean and Lively Calculus"(3).
Highlights of the conference:
A workshop created annotated syllabi for a general, "lean" two-semester sequence in
single-variable calculus.
Another workshop established pedagogical techniques to achieve the goals,
which included the use of computers.
The team also discussed how to widely implement the new instruction.
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Ronald Douglas(1)
Ronald douglas of Texas A&M, who is considred the 'father' of calculus reform.
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