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Active learning taking root—a progress update

David Freund, Tara Holm, and Marie MacDonald and Timothy Riley

PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies, 2024.

In 2017, Cornell University’s Mathematics Department embarked on a project to make active learning the standard teaching method in single-variable calculus teaching, as described in a 2020 PRIMUS article by Bennoun and Holm [4]. Here we report on the progress of that initiative, the wider teaching reforms it generated, and the challenges we encountered.