Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the prestigious California Institute of Technology announced in August it would drop calculus as an admissions requirement — ...

This post continues the series of posts about the inverted/flipped calculus class that I taught in the Fall. This post continues the series of posts about the inverted/flipped calculus class that I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, high-achieving high school students have been told the surest way to impress selective colleges is to take calculus.

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 ...

EdSource · A University of California in the heart of farm country aims to attract more students Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. At 8 a.m. in a Salazar Hall classroom, Cal ...

A sign for the California Institute of Technology imbedded in a wall of green ivy When the prestigious California Institute of Technology announced in August 2023 it would drop calculus as an ...

If you are a new engineering first-year student starting in the fall semester, you will most likely be pre-enrolled in an Applied Math (APPM) pre-calculus or calculus course based on patterns of prior ...

Amid the many signs of underperformance in American education, the growth and geographic spread of Advanced Placement courses in high schools is a widely admired success story. For several decades, AP ...

Two recent California laws try to address this problem. Assembly Bill 705 allows most students to skip all sorts of remedial classes in favor of full credit courses that can transfer to a four-year ...

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 ...

If students aren’t adequately prepared for college-level math courses in high school, it can make completing a college degree more difficult, with some students needing to spend time and money on ...