Introduction to Special Issue of PRIMUS on Improving the Teaching and Learning of Calculus

摘要

Calculus courses are increasingly problematic in our colleges and universities. The strongest students no longer study single-variable calculus in college. Exploding enrollments in the sciences and engineering bring less well-prepared students into these courses. Budget cuts force larger classes. And the greater accountability of public universities to those who fund them implies that high rates of D, F, or Withdraw (DFW), which might have been unremarkable 20 years ago, are no longer acceptable.