KVIA

Even as Caltech drops calculus requirement, other top universities continue to require the hard-to-find course

A sign for the California Institute of Technology imbedded in a wall of green ivy When the prestigious California Institute of Technology announced in August 2023 it would drop calculus as an ...
The Hechinger Report

High failure rates spur universities to overhaul math class

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The Lowell Sun

Class of ’12 ‘excited for future’ — except calculus

LOWELL — Most were born in 1990 — the year after Gilda Radner and Secretariat left us. The year after Tiananmen Square and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. But there was a Bush in the White House ...
The Atlantic

Where Calculus Class Isn’t an Option

Fewer than half of all high schools in the United States offer calculus—and the kids who don’t have access to the math course are disproportionately students of color. That finding is among the many ...
Education Week

Math Class: The Champ at Slowing Down the Fast Learners

“The only way to close achievement gaps is to slow down the fast learners.” Compared to other disciplines, mathematics has a much smaller number of concepts to learn. As a result, the students with ...