As part of the probability and statistics unit, the pre-calculus class at The Grauer School, an independent school in Encinitas, created fun mathematically-based games for all students and teachers to ...

When I took calculus at night school with three nerdy high school friends, graphing calculators did not exist. Johns Hopkins University mathematics professor Stephen Wilson is happy for me. He says ...

Part of the premise of Good Will Hunting is that if you’re smart enough, you should skip formal education and teach yourself with books. And that was before prestigious universities started uploading ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

Calculus is historically a gatekeeper course for science, engineering, technology and math fields: if a student fails calculus, it’s do-not-pass go. Even non-STEM majors who enroll in calculus face ...

A few years ago, math instructors at Stevens Institute of Technology noticed their calculus students consistently struggling with the basics once they reached upper-level courses -- or, in some cases, ...

WebAssign, a provider of online instructional tools, and publisher Perfection Learning have teamed up to offer enriched precalculus content. As a result of the partnership, Perfection Learning's ...

This teacher believes that “deprioritizing abstract math like calculus in favor of practical math, with a focus on statistical literacy, reduces barriers to entry and will help increase diversity in ...

Arizona State University is expanding its use of an online calculus application with built-in artificial intelligence. Currently, two courses — Calculus for Business and Calculus for Engineering — are ...

Apparently they can. Here in the US, students don't get to algebra until the 7th or 8th grade, so teaching calculus to youngsters between ages 10 and 12 seems like a challenge. But things look ...