What is the history of EPGY?
EPGY began in 1985 at the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences, under the direction of Professor Patrick Suppes and funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, as a project to develop a complete first year calculus course that would be entirely machine-based. This project grew out of 15 years of teaching university level courses in logic and set theory at Stanford. The motivation for doing a calculus course was the fact that fewer than 25% of the high schools in the country currently offer calculus. Computers were seen as a way to make calculus available at schools that had no other way to offer it. In 1990-91, we decided to turn our attention to middle schools because they provided situations where there might be a few students capable of taking the course, but no one available to teach it. We selected a group of 30 interested students in the area, in grades 7-10 to attend a special summer course at Foothill Community College to prepare them to take th
