Welcome to the Calculus Reform pages at Cornell.

The aim of these pages is to share our experiences here at Cornell with fellow educators and reformers around the country and around the world.

Two of us, Lisa Orlandi and myself (Harel Barzilai), have given a presentation at the November 95 MER Forum Workshop. The Abstract of that presentation provides a concise overview you might want to read before looking through our Curricular Resource pages or delving into the History page.

I have also written an article, Graduate Student Initiated Calculus Reform which I have recently submitted for publication and which will soon be available online (or email me at harelb@math.cornell.edu to request a copy).

Having received a grant this semester (Fall '96), I have a special TA under which I am developing a reform-calculus syllabus for Math 111 (first semester calculus), as well as building and organizing a Resource Library for Math 111 and Math 112, both in folders/binders, and online on the Web through these pages, which will be a resource for instructors wanting to teach a reform version of calculus.

This library will give instructors flexibility, as they will be able to choose from a variety of reform materials, as well as being able to choose anywhere from a few materials for use within a more traditional course, to a fairly complete week-by-week reform-calculus "package" from the Curricular Resource pages. [For more information, see the Notes on Usage].

The rather detailed History page describes how a band of graduate students brought calculus reform in the form of cooperative learning, student presentations, and projects, to Math 112, a second-semester calculus course at Cornell. Although you may not want to start off by reading through this rather extensive and cross-referenced document, we do hope it provides a useful glimpse, "from the ground level," on how this was accomplished, and might offer a rough "how-to" guide for would-be reformers elsewhere.
--Harel Barzilai, September 1996.

Note: This particular collection of pages describes one set of (first-year) calculus-reform endeavors. There have been others, for example, others have brought Multivariable Calculus with Maple to Cornell. Perhaps some day there will be more online and Cornell reform endeavors will be better-interlinked. Return to Calculus Reform Page