Brief Biography of David A. Smith

B.S. Trinity College, 1958

Ph.D. Yale University, 1963

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

EDUCOM medalist

Visiting Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2001

Associate Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Duke University

Author or co-author of

• Interface: Calculus and the Computer (2nd ed., Saunders, 1984)
• Calculus: Modeling and Application (Houghton Mifflin, 1996)
• other textbooks and instructional materials
• many papers in abstract algebra, combinatorics, mathematical psychology, numerical analysis, and mathematics education

Past or present member of editorial boards for

• Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications (Editor, 2000-2006)
• The College Mathematics Journal
• Mathematics Magazine
• MAA Notes series
• UME Trends
• Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching

Co-Director (with Lawrence Moore) of the Connected Curriculum Project, a World Wide Web library of modular, interactive laboratory materials for lower division mathematics. CCP is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Co-Director (also with Lawrence Moore) of Project CALC: Calculus As a Laboratory Course, previously supported by the National Science Foundation. Project CALC developed a new curriculum for calculus instruction based on

• laboratory experiments
• discovery learning
• real-world applications
• writing and revision of writing
• high expectations of students

The Project CALC laboratory materials were awarded the prize of Best Curriculum Innovation: Mathematics in the 1991 EDUCOM Higher Education Software Awards Competition, and the Project CALC course was cited in 1993 by Project Kaleidoscope as one of 29 Programs That Work in science and mathematics education.

Recent Papers:

• "Thinking about Learning, Learning about Thinking," in Calculus: The Dynamics of Change (A. W. Roberts, ed.), MAA Notes No. 39, 1996.
• "Renewal in Collegiate Mathematics Education," Documenta Mathematica, Extra Volume ICM 1998 III, pp. 777-786.
• "Renewal in Collegiate Mathematics Education: Learning from Research," in Calculus Renewal: Issues for Undergraduate Mathematics Education in the Next Decade (S. Ganter, ed.), Plenum Publishers, 2000, pp. 23-40.
• "The Active/Interactive Classroom," in The Teaching and Learning of Mathematics at University Level: An ICMI Study (Derek Holton, ed.), (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, pp. 167-178.
• "How People Learn .. Mathematics," keynote address at the 2nd International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 3 July 2002.
• "Changing Technology Implies Changing Pedagogy" (with Lang Moore), in A Fresh Start for Collegiate Mathematics: Rethinking the Courses below Calculus, (J. Narayan, et al.,eds.), MAA Notes No. 69, 2006