Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Successful completion of high school calculus has long been an unofficial must-have for those seeking admission to the nation’s ...

Staring at a page of derivatives or integrals can feel like trying to read a foreign language. Your professor moves fast, the ...

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 ...

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Lisa Rodriguez teaches Algebra II and Pre-Calculus Honors and is co-director of the Calculus Project at Brookline High. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

Declining math skills are a real problem nationally, but UC San Diego is an unusual case—and other California colleges offer a range of promising models for rethinking calculus requirements.

There are [Q] courses in many departments and programs. Garnet Gateway allows you to search for these: try the “Schedule of Courses” link from the log-in page. In both fall and winter semesters of ...

Even in the birthplace of microchips and iPhones, unequal access to advanced math starts early for many California students. Luis Castro Limon, an incoming senior in Pomona Unified, has seen the ...

Many parents relish reliving moments from our childhoods through our children, and doing homework with them is its own kind of madeleine. For Steve Levitt of “Freakonomics” fame — who is, in his own ...

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 ...