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Calculus is one of the greatest inventions of the human intellect. It has proved itself over centuries by acting as the "language of continuous change" in subjects ranging from physics to finance. Calculus will continue to be important, but Mathematica has changed what educated people need to know in order to make calculus a useful part of their lives.
I will discuss three ways Mathematica is impacting calculus instruction: Calculus WIZ, NetMath Calculus, and Calculus: The Language of Change. These three highly developed experiments show how students can begin learning calculus with Mathematica, resulting in faster mastery of skills, deeper involvement in the mathematical development, and solution of more compelling and interesting problems.
Mathematica contains a vast body of "classical mathematical" knowledge. The challenge to instructors is to make our students "educated users" of this knowledge without having them earn Ph.D.'s in math. The potential is that "ordinary" people will be able to apply this new organization of knowledge going far beyond traditional calculus.
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