Membership increases through word of mouth and other related means at a rate proportional to the current membership. After four days of brainwashing people to join, the cult has 9 members. The most difficult and most necessary aspect of revitalizing calculus is getting students to think. The Consortium calculus course focuses on having students learn to do conceptual problems as well as computations. We want students to be able to handle open-ended problems and realistic applications.
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Especially interesting are the problems using VRML and other newer technologies. An National Science Foundation funded project. It consists of an introductory calculus text, computer software, and a Handbook for Instructors. In this overview, we tell our 'creation story' and then describe how it led to the text, spelling out our starting points, our curricular goals, our functional goals, and our view of the impact of technology. There is good and bad here.