The stereotype of the
mathematics community as aloof—perhaps even a tad condescending—towards
other disciplines and their mathematical needs is not uncommon among
our science and social science colleagues. Fortunately a major MAA
effort that is underway challenges this stereotype: a series of
disciplinary workshops known as the Curriculum Foundations Project.
Reports from a series of disciplinary workshops organized by the
Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years subcomittee of the
Committee for the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM)
Mathematical Association of
America's Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM)
Prepared with support from the National Science Foundation and from the
Calculus Consortium for Higher Education