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Part I. Mathematics Education at the University: 1. On the education ofmathematics majors H. Wu; 2. The mathematics major at researchuniversities Peter G. Hinman and B. Alan Taylor; 3. On the role ofproof in calculus courses Thomas W. Tucker; Part II. Case Studies inMathematics Education: 4. If I could talk to the animals DorothyWallace; 5. The research mathematician as storyteller William YslasVlez and Joseph C. Watkins; 6. Redesigning the calculus sequence at aresearch university: issues, implementation, and objectives Harvey B.Keynes, Andrea Olson, Douglas Shaw, Frederick J. Wicklin; 7. Is themathematics we do the mathematics we teach? Jerry Uhl and WilliamDavis; 8. Japan: a different model of mathematics education Thomas W.Judson; Part III. The Debate over School Mathematics Education: 9.Reflections on teacher education Anneli Lax; 10. The third mathematicseducation revolution Richard Askey; 11. Instructional materials for K-8mathematics classrooms, the California adoption, 1997 Bill Jacob; 12.Beyond the math wars Judith Roitman; Part IV. Reports from the WorkingGroups: 13. How the working groups worked; 14. The renewal of teachingin research departments Harvey Keynes, Al Taylor, Richard Falk, LeonHenkin, Lars-Ake Lindahl, Richard Montgomery, Dan Shapiro, Donald St.Mary, Donald Martin, Susan Montgomery; 15. The use of technology in theteaching of mathematics Peter Alfeld, Kirby Baker, Angela Cheer, EstelaGavosto, Ben Halperin, Tom Judson, Abel Klein, Gerardo Lafferriere,Charles Lamb, John Orr, Bob Welland; 16. Different teaching methodsGreg Baker, David Epstein, Ted Gamelin, Sid Graham, Ole Hald, DelphineHwang, Suzanne Lewis, Randy McCarthy, Brad Shelton, John Sims, RobertUnderwood; 17. The first two years of university mathematics JosephBall, Christopher Grant, Peter Lax, Robert Megginson, Kenneth Millett,Wayne Raskind, Thomas Tucker, Joseph Watkins, Hung-Hsi Wu; 18. Themathematics major Jorgen Andersen, John Brothers, Ralph Cohen, StephenFisher, Andrew Gleason, James Lin, Lea Murphy, Richard Montgomery, Y.S. Poon, Ken Ross, Anthony Tromba; 19. The education of non-mathematicsmajors Adeniran Adeboye, Stephen Greenfield, Jean Larson, AshleyReiter, Dorothy Wallace; 20. Outreach to other departments ChrisAnderson, Barbara Bath, Marjorie Enneking, Terry Herdman, Paul M.Weichsel; 21. Outreach to high schools Gunnar Carlsson, Phil Curtis,Dan Fendel, Neal Koblitz, Anneli Lax, Judith Roitman, Tom Sallee,Martin Scharlemann, Alina Stancu, Abigail Thompson, David Wright,William Velez; 22. Research mathematicians and research in mathematicseducation Hyman Bass, Kenneth Bogart, Michael Fried, Cathy Kessell,Alfred Manaster, Steve Monk, Blake Peterson; 23. Afterword William G.McCallum; Part V. Appendices: A. Sample final exam H. Wu; B. When youfind a lemon, make lemonade! Anneli Lax; C. The California math warsBill Jacob.