I challenge the validity of the transfer of credits for the course Calculus III from Connecticut community colleges to the University of Connecticut. This community college course fully transfers to ...

It’s September, and all across the country high school seniors are setting up their Common Application accounts, retaking SATs, and struggling to write (or procrastinating the writing of) 650 words ...

EdSource · California teachers on the picket line amid shrinking school budgets Calculus is expected to be difficult; it should not be impossible. But, too often, this course becomes a gatekeeper that ...

Calculus. For many high school students, it's the Mt. Everest of high school courses, the pinnacle of curricular attainment. "My daughter's taking Calculus!" is a phrase that's meant to impress ...

Area colleges are teaching math differently to help students succeed. Area colleges are teaching math differently to help students succeed. College math classes have undergone a transformation in the ...

The word alone is enough strike terror into the hearts of even the most accomplished students, but for those who break out in cold sweats at the thought of ...

Experts are questioning the relevance of pushing all college-bound students to take calculus, arguing that the “narrow pathway toward calculus … fails to serve most students.” Credit: Erika Rich for ...

College algebra is a shockingly common stumbling block to graduation. About 50 percent of students each year fail to pass college algebra with a grade of “C” or better, according to the Mathematical ...

As longtime college math faculty in San Diego County, we were taken aback by the news about first-year students struggling with middle school math at UC San Diego. The idea that students might score ...

RED LION, Pa. - A 12-year-old boy goes to elementary school by day and attends a college calculus class by night. Tyler Spangler, a sixth-grade student in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, didn't start forming ...

Linn-Benton Community College is finding ways to teach math in more applied ways, so that students can pick up those skills and get into the workplace. It’s 7:15 on a cold gray Monday morning in May ...