AP Calculus

Special Focus: The Fundamental
Theorem of Calculus
Contributors
Information current as of original publish date of September 2005.
About the Editor
Caren Diefenderfer joined the Hollins University faculty in 1977. Her two terms as chair
of the mathematics and statistics department at Hollins were preceded by a term as chair
of the division of natural and mathematical sciences. Caren became the Chief Reader for
AP Calculus in 2004. Caren also has a long relationship with the Mathematical Association
of America (MAA). She was the secretary of the MD-DC-VA section, currently serves
on the Coordinating Council on Competitions, is the chair of the newly formed special
interest group in quantitative literacy (SIGMAA QL), and has been a resource faculty
member for the summer MAA PREP workshops on quantitative reasoning.
Benita Albert has taught AP Calculus BC for over 36 years at Oak Ridge High School.
She has been an AP Exam Reader, Table Leader, and member of the AP Calculus
Development Committee as well as a consultant for the College Board in the southeast.
Recently, her committee work with the College Board has concentrated on Pre-AP
educational services. Benita received one of the 2004 Edyth May Sliffe Awards for her
efforts in educating several years’ worth of students who scored well on the American
Mathematics Competition (AMC).
David Bressoud is the DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College.
He was chair of the AP Calculus Development Committee from 2002 to 2005 and
currently serves as the chair of the MAA’s Committee on the Undergraduate Program.
David’s research interests lie in number theory and combinatorics with occasional forays
into analysis (special functions, modular forms) and algebra. He enjoys the history of
mathematics and has drawn on it in his books, which include: A Course in Computational
Number Theory, A Radical Approach to Real Analysis, Second Year Calculus: From
Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity, and Factorization and Primality Testing.
Ray Cannon is a professor of mathematics at Baylor University. He started at the
AP Exam Reading as a Reader in 1978 and served as the Chief Reader from 1992 to
1995. Ray continues to serve as an AP Calculus consultant for the College Board and
leads AP institutes around the country. His major areas of research are analysis and
the AP Calculus program.
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