By David Bressoud @dbressoud

As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month.

This is a continuation of the Launchings columns that will take us up to the current efforts to modernize undergraduate mathematics. Last month I looked at the long-term effects of some of the efforts that were launched in the ’90s. This month I want to look at parallel developments in Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME). Much of the information in this piece is taken from Annie Selden’s 2012 article “A Home for RUME” and “Remembering Ed Dubinsky and his Visionary Work” by Annie Selden and Draga Vidakovic.

Neither RUME nor Calculus Reform was a product of the other. Instead they both emerged from the same discontent with undergraduate instruction in mathematics.…