For decades, high-achieving high school students have been told the surest way to impress selective colleges is to take calculus. In a recent national survey of 133 admissions officers, 74% said the ...

BRAINTREE - Did you like doing math in school? Many people didn't. But a non-profit in Massachusetts is increasing the number of students of color and low-income students in advanced level math ...

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, ...

Poster presentation: View a poster (PDF) describing this project from the 2013 Symposium on Teaching and Learning. Description: We and our colleagues in SFU's Department of Mathematics have recorded ...

National and international tests often highlight achievement gaps among U.S. students in math, but digging a little deeper into the data can reveal ways in which differences in the content students ...

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, ...