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 ...

Maplesoft has launched a teaching kit to help instructors of first- and second-year calculus use its mathematics software. "Teaching Calculus with Maple: A Complete Kit," free to Maple and Maple T.A.

Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). But getting to those careers means surviving the academic journey. Good news: There's mounting ...

A Johns Hopkins University professor argues in a Forbes magazine piece that high schools should stop teaching calculus, and instead teach computer science and statistics. Steven Salzberg, who teaches ...

I’ve been teaching calculus since 1993, when I first stepped into a Calculus for Engineers classroom at Vanderbilt as a second-year graduate student. It hardly seems possible that this was 16 years ...

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, ...

Forget a new way to teach calculus in high school. Start asking why we are even teaching it at all when 95% of students will never use it in the real world (I'm an engineer and I can count on one hand ...

I was having a conversation recently with a colleague who might be teaching a section of our intro programming course this fall. In sharing my experiences about teaching programming from the MATLAB ...

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 ...

David Greene talks to advanced placement calculus teacher Anthony Yom about his classroom magic, and how he's gotten every one of his students for the past five years to pass the exam. Sorry to bring ...

Standing in four inches of flood water, one UC San Diego professor continued teaching his calculus class this week during powerful El Niño storms, earning major credit with students. On Wednesday, ...