It helps that Reis created buzz phrases, songs, color-coded notecards and other catchy ways to help students remember the rules, shortcuts and perils. "Separate the xs and the ys before taking the ...

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.

On Dec. 7, 2019, I — for the first time ever — was the talk of my high school. I became “the kid who got into Yale.” Most of my classmates gave me half-hearted congratulations with varying degrees of ...

Stacey Roshan has begun pre-recording lectures so that class time can be spent answering questions and getting one-on-one assistance. A fairly new teacher has come up with a way to help her ...

When the prestigious California Institute of Technology announced in August it would drop calculus as an admissions requirement — students must prove mastery of the subject but don’t have to take it ...

How many people can take a calculus class? The limit does not exist. Calculus is a class that people take as a prerequisite for dozens of majors around campus and at colleges across the country. One ...

In this bleak time for public education, I’ve been straining to decipher some silver linings. I thought I caught sight of one recently when Richard Barrera, a school board member for San Diego Unified ...

It's a Saturday afternoon at Boston University’s School of Education, where Elliot Kastner, a former Dartmouth College football player turned mechanical engineer, is addressing a group of students. He ...

College students learn more calculus in an active learning course in which students solve problems during class than in a traditional lecture-based course. That’s according to a peer-reviewed study my ...