For more than 30 years, calculus has been seen as the pinnacle of high school math—essential for careers in the hard sciences, and an explicit or unspoken prerequisite for top-tier colleges. But now, ...

There’s a certain four letter word that strikes great fear into the hearts of many people: math. It has a reputation for being a subject of the elite — a terrible, confusing, jumbled mess of illogical ...

California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in accelerated classes that study advanced concepts like ...

The familiar, hierarchical sequence of math instruction starts with counting, followed by addition and subtraction, then multiplication and division. The computational set expands to include bigger ...

If you have read Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver—the first volume of his Baroque Cycle (2003)—you will remember the smell of the age he recreates: Wet ink, gossip, gunpowder, and the new arrogance of ...

Learning Assistant Juan Ignacio Sanchez Quintana, center, works with a student in Calculus I class. FIU changed the way it teaches calculus, and managed to increase the pass rate. Miami, Florida, ...

All routes to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees run through calculus classes. Each year, hundreds of thousands of college students take introductory calculus. But only a ...

What is calculus: It’s the study of change and motion, split into differential (rates of change) and integral (accumulation) branches. Where it’s used: From physics and engineering to economics, ...

Wolfram|Alpha: The makers of Mathematica (a very powerful mathematical software package, popular amongst applied mathematicians and engineers) bring us a "google-like" mathematical search engine. In ...

The recommendation in California’s proposed new framework for mathematics to develop new pathways for 11th- and 12th-grade students could result in reducing college and career options in STEM fields ...