Caltech professor Jared Leadbetter meets with university admissions ambassadors, from left, Emily Hu, Jj Jones and Miles Jones. Leadbetter helped develop an alternative path to admissions, dropping ...
Florida’s public high schools can offer a new Advanced Placement math course next school year, the Florida Department of Education told the College Board late Wednesday, a delayed decision that had ...
Week 1 of the new semester is in the books, and with it the first week of the inverted calculus class Week 1 of the new semester is in the books, and with it the first week of the inverted calculus ...
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 ...
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 ...
If you’re a student at one of California’s community colleges and you plan to study a STEM field, you’ll typically have to pass calculus first before diving into many of the other required classes in ...
“It’d be like if you took everyone in CS 106A, put them in 106B or X and told them, ‘Have fun, some Java is necessary, but we’re Stanford so we expect you to know that already,” C.J. told me Sunday ...
NORTON - Barely 10 minutes into her honors pre-calculus class, Rebecca Ohlson's teacher put on a TV crime drama DVD. The episode of "Numb3rs" reinforced the Norton High School students' recent lessons ...
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 ...
A randomized trial involving 811 undergraduate students at a U.S. Hispanic-Serving Institution (HIS) university found that students assigned to calculus classes focused on collaborative learning and ...