David A Smith, Associate Professor Emeritus and Co-Director, Connected Curriculum Project

David A Smith
Office Location:  104 Physics
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://www.math.duke.edu/~das

Education:

Ph.D., Yale University, 1963
B.S., Trinity College, 1958
Research Interests: Mathematics Education

Professor Smith is Co-Director (with Professor Lawrence Moore) of Project CALC, which developed an award-winning curriculum for calculus instruction, based on laboratory experiments, discovery learning, real-world applications, writing and revision of writing, and high expectations of students. Professors Smith and Moore also direct the Connected Curriculum Project, funded by the National Science Foundation. This project has developed a library of Web-based interactive learning materials for the first two years of college-level mathematics.

Postdocs Mentored

Recent Publications

  1. David Tall, David A. Smith, and Cynthia Piez, Technology and Calculus, in Research on Technology and the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics: Volume 1, Research Syntheses, edited by M. Kathleen Heid and Glendon W. Blume (Summer, 2008), pp. 207-258, Information Age Publishing, Inc., Charlotte, NC, ISBN 978-1-931576-19-2
  2. Lang Moore and David A. Smith, Changing Technology Implies Changing Pedagogy, in A Fresh Start for Collegiate Mathematics: Rethinking the Courses below Calculus, MAA Notes, edited by J. Narayan, et al., vol. 69 (Accepted, March, 2006), Mathematical Association of America [pdf]
  3. David A. Smith and Lang Moore, The Connected Curriculum Project, The Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 1, no. 3, Dec. 2001 [html]
  4. Jack Bookman, David Malone, Lawrence C. Moore, and David A. Smith, Learning about Online Learning: How Do Students Use Interactive Web-Based Materials?, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Gail Goodell, ed., Addison-Wesley, 2002, pp. 31-34
  5. David A. Smith, Welcome to JOMA, Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 1, no. 1, January, 2001 [html]