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 ...

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 ...

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Math education needs a reboot. Kids today are growing up into a world awash in data, and they need new skills to make sense of it all. The list of high school math courses in the U.S. hasn’t changed ...

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, ...

If you're old enough, you probably remember getting a line from your math teacher that you need to learn the steps to an equation because "you won't always be carrying a calculator with you." In an AP ...

Caltech professor Jared Leadbetter meets with university admissions ambassadors, from left, Emily Hu, Jj Jones and Miles Jones. Leadbetter helped develop an alternative path to admissions, dropping ...

University of Florida provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. Two years ago I taught a section of Calculus I to approximately 650 undergrad students in a large auditorium.