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Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...
Calculus has a formidable reputation as being difficult and/or unpleasant, but it doesn't have to be. Bringing humor and a sense of play to the topic can go a long way toward demystifying it. That's ...
Calculus is the study of change. Calculus teaching methods, however, have changed little in recent decades. Now, FIU research shows a new model could improve calculus instruction nationwide. A study ...
A new video game that launched last month aims to help students learn one of the most difficult academic subjects while having fun. In the game, called “Variant,” users try to navigate an avatar ...
The purpose of the research was to compare the teaching of the limit and derivative concepts by inductive and deductive methods to advanced high school students in Chicago suburbs. An analysis of ...
This teacher believes that “deprioritizing abstract math like calculus in favor of practical math, with a focus on statistical literacy, reduces barriers to entry and will help increase diversity in ...
Some "History of Calculus" from Indian perspective. Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: the Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of Calculus from India to Europe in the 16th c. (Pearson ...