Launchings by David Bressoud

New Launchings posts can be found on the Mathematical Association of America’s Math Values blog. This site will remain live as an archive for all previous posts.

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-launchings-posts-can-be-found-on.html

By David Bressoud YOU CAN NOW FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES WILL BE HOLDING A ROUNDTABLE ON DATA SCIENCE POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION: MOTIVATING DATA SCIENCE EDUCATION T...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2018/11/data-analytics-in-undergraduate.html

YOU CAN NOW FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD The title of this article is not intended to imply that one cannot use the derivative to find the slope of a tangent line. My point is that we can...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-derivative-is-not-slope-of-tangent.html

YOU CAN NOW FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD I am using this month’s column to announce the next Forum from the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), HIGH SCHOOL TO COLLEGE MAT...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2018/10/cbms-forum-announcement-high-school-to.html

By David Bressoud YOU CAN NOW FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD I have often cited data from the Sadler and Sonnert FICSMath study (Factors Influencing College Success in Mathematics, spon...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2018/08/should-students-wait-until-college-to.html

By David Bressoud YOU CAN NOW FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD When I talk with individuals who are wrestling with improving their calculus program, I often describe calculus at Macalester....

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2018/08/calculus-as-modeling-course-at.html

By David Bressoud You can now follow me on Twitter @dbressoud Paul Zorn and I have just published a special issue of PRIMUS on Improving the Teaching and Learning of Calculus (Bressoud & Zo...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2018/06/departmental-turnaround-case-of-san.html

By David Bressoud YOU CAN NOW FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD The 2015 CBMS Survey is now available. Last month I reported on Trends in Mathematics Majors . This month I am looking at wha...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2018/06/explosive-growth-of-advanced.html

By David Bressoud  YOU CAN NOW FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD By the time this column appears, the full CBMS 2015 survey of math departments should be available at www.ams.org/profession/da...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2018/05/trends-in-mathematics-majors.html

By David Bressoud You can now follow me on Twitter @dbressoud I have long held the belief (Bressoud, 2011 ) that we should revert to the original name, the Fundamental Theorem of Integral Ca...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2018/04/gaps-in-student-understanding-of.html

By David Bressoud YOU CAN NOW FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD On January 31, I published a piece in The Conversation , “Why Colleges Must Change How They Teach Calculus .” The foll...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-false-dichotomy-lecture-vs-active.html

YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . In 2015, the MAA’s Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM) produced its latest Curriculum Guide . Extensive as this was, includ...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2018/02/getting-to-know-ip-guide.html

YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . The National Academies have just released the Board on Science Education report on Indicators for Monitoring Undergraduate STEM Education (available ...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2018/01/indicators-for-stem-education.html

YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . For over five years, the Association of American Universities (AAU), representing the 62 leading research universities in the United States and C...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2017/12/essential-questions.html

YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . In last month’s column, I described the loss of tenure positions and their replacement with other full-time faculty appointments. This month, I wil...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2017/11/women-in-profession.html

YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . The preliminary tables from the CBMS 2015 surveys of U.S. departments of mathematics or statistics are now available from the CBMS homepage at CBMSwe...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-loss-of-tenure-positions-threats-to.html

YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . Mathematics occupies a privileged position in our educational system, generally equated with English language facility—reading and writing—for em...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2017/09/mathematics-as-peacock-feathers.html

YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . In the United States, the mathematically intensive disciplines—engineering, the mathematical sciences, and the physical sciences—have traditional...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2017/08/changing-demographics.html

YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . On May 5, 2017, the presidents and executive directors of the member societies of CBMS received a report from Samantha Burg and Stephen Provasnik at ...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-2015-naep.html

YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . Last month, in "Re-imagining the Calculus Curriculum ," I, I introduced Project DIRACC (Developing and Investigating a Rigorous Approach to Conceptu...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2017/06/re-imagining-calculus-curriculum-ii.html

YOU CAN NOW FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . I was recently asked about calculus instruction: Which is easier, reforming pedagogy or curriculum? The answer is easy: pedagogy. This is not to ...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2017/05/re-imagining-calculus-curriculum-i.html

YOU CAN NOW FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . Continuing my series of summaries of articles that have appeared in the International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education ...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2017/04/conceptual-understanding.html

YOU CAN NOW FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . From our 2012 study, Characteristics of Successful Programs in College Calculus (NSF #0910240), the most successful departments had a practice of ...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2017/03/maa-calculus-studies-use-of-local-data.html

YOU CAN NOW FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . In spring 2015 the MAA’s Progress through Calculus (PtC) grant (NSF#1430540) surveyed all U.S. Departments of Mathematics that offer a graduate ...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2017/02/maa-calculus-study-ptc-survey-results.html

YOU CAN NOW FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @DBRESSOUD . In an earlier column, "Beyond the Limit, III ," I talked about how Michael Oehrtman and colleagues have been able to use approximation as a unifyi...

http://launchings.blogspot.com/2017/01/ijrume-approximation-in-calculus.html