Minicourse #5: "Business calculus: A new real-data/model-building approach"
Organized by Donald LaTorre, John L. Kenelly, and Iris B. Feta, Clemson University.

Participants will actively explore fresh material and methodology for teaching new, up-to-date courses in business calculus. The focus will be on rates of change and their applications to real-life situations in business and finance, liberal arts, economics and the social sciences, and management. The derivative as a rate of change and the integral as the accumulation of change are the main ideas, and modeling real data with linear, quadratic, cubic, exponential and logistic models will be a central theme. Graphing calculators will be provided.