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Primus: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies, Sep 2001 by Gordon, Florence S

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The work described in this article was supported by the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation under grant #DUE9555401 for the Long Island Consortium for Interconnected Learning. However, the views expressed are not necessarily those of either the Foundation or the project.

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1. Colley, Kabba. 2000. Comparing College Students Performance in Traditional and Reform Pre-Calculus and Calculus Courses: An Evaluation Report. (http://iris. nyit. edu/math/eval.doc.)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Florence S. Gordon is professor of mathematics at New York Institute of Technology. She received her PhD from McGill University. She was a member of the working group on the Math Modeling/PreCalculus Reform Project and is a co-author of the project text, Functioning in the Real World: A PreCalculus Experience. She is the co-editor of the MAA Notes volume, Statistics for the Twenty First Century, the co-author of Contemporary Statistics: A Computer Approach, and is the author of over 40 articles on statistical research and mathematical and statistical education. She is also a local-project director of the NSF-supported Long Island Consortium for Interconnected Learning in Quantitative Disciplines.