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. When the prestigious California Institute of Technology announced in August it would drop calculus as an admissions requirement — ...

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 ...

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 ...

The College Board offers four Advanced Placement classes in math: AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics and – the newest – AP Precalculus. Successful completion of an AP math class is ...

About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. It was from his dean, who said that the department had ...

A few weeks ago I began a series to review the Calculus course that Marcia Frobish and I taught using the inverted/flipped class design, back in the Fall. I want to pick up the thread here about the ...

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 ...

Calculus is historically a gatekeeper course for science, engineering, technology and math fields: if a student fails calculus, it’s do-not-pass go. Even non-STEM majors who enroll in calculus face ...

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