Presented is the work of the calculus group of SMSG. The Advisory Board expressed a desire for a suitable high school calculus text. The calculus group surveyed available texts and, finding none which met advisory board requirements, outlined a suitable course. This outline was annotated for use by future writers. Some group members felt a more…

Ithaca College, in New York, has developed and tested a projects-based first-year calculus course over the last 3 years which uses the graphs of functions and physical phenomena to illustrate and motivate the major concepts of calculus and to introduce students to mathematical modeling. The course curriculum is designed to: (1) emphasize on the…