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 ...

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 ...

Foundations of Algebra emphasizes computing with whole numbers and fractions, decimals, and integers; solving word problems with whole numbers, fractions, decimals and integers; solving basic linear ...

Choosing high school courses can feel high-stakes—and for good reason. According to a survey from the National Association for College Admission Counseling, nearly 87% of colleges believe curriculum ...

Photo courtesy of the Harvard University Department of Mathematics. Alan Garfinkel, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, explains the practical uses of modeling to instructors ...

You may have earned academic college course credit by scoring well on Advanced Placement (AP) and/or International Baccalaureate (IB) examinations, or by receiving credit at a college or university ...

In suburban Howard County, Md., lots of students take calculus in high school. Or at least, lots of white and Asian students do. In 2011, African-American and Hispanic students made up about 30 ...

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 ...

Papers: A paper (PDF1, PDF2) was accepted for a paper presentation at the 2014 International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in Education, Vancouver BC. A ...

Most students don’t aspire to careers that will require calculus, so high schools must create sequences of math courses that reflect the wide variety of young people’s occupational goals, a math ...