For decades, high-achieving high school students have been told the surest way to impress selective colleges is to take calculus. In a recent national survey of 133 admissions officers, 74% said the ...

Brookline High School students will no longer have access to The Calculus Project, a math program designed to bridge achievement gaps by providing supplemental instruction for students of color and ...

Many students find calculus intimidating—not because of the numbers, but due to its abstract nature. However, struggle is built into its DNA. This feature explores seven effective, research-backed ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention in the 17th century, it stood on a shaky ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

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Calculus can be a miserable slog for many high schoolers. It’s estimated that 20 percent of students (about 800,000 a year) take the subject, generally when they are seniors. I was surprised to learn ...

BROOKLINE — It was a gray morning in July, and most of their peers were spending the summer sleeping late and hanging out with friends. But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at ...

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Limits, continuity, differential and integral calculus of functions of one variable. Prerequisites: A grade of C or better in MAT187, or MAT188, or an appropriate District placement. Course Notes: ...