This is the summary of a presentation given at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 10-13, 1996, Orlando, Florida.

The calculus reform movement has pioneered the use of a computer/calculator laboratory component in their courses. Multimedia Calculus, published by J. Wiley & Sons, is designed to complement and enhance such innovations by providing a rich, interactive environment where students can use modern technology as an investigative tool to ask "What if...?" questions, explore the nature of mathematical models and probe their relationship with the real world. Multimedia Calculus will be delivered on a CD-ROM. Its 24 modules will span the standard Calculus sequence, and will be published with a Laboratory text book. The modules are intended to supplement existing lecture formats that use either traditional or reform texts. They use multimedia technology (video, sound, simulation, dynamic graphics and symbolic manipulation) to provide an active, motivationing context for exploration, discovery, analysis and interpretation. The advantage of this format is that it is possible to demonstrate the rich underlying structure and connectivity in this area of mathematics and explore the concepts involved using a high degree of interactivity.

Douglas A. Quinney, University of Keele, UK