If you are a new engineering first-year student starting in the fall semester, you will most likely be pre-enrolled in an Applied Math (APPM) pre-calculus or calculus course based on patterns of prior ...

You may have earned academic college course credit by scoring well on Advanced Placement (AP) and/or International Baccalaureate (IB) examinations, or by receiving credit at a college or university ...

Alan Garfinkel, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, explains the practical uses of modeling to instructors from around the country. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Math professor Martin ...

Correction & clarification: This article was updated to remove incorrect details about math courses and departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Math professor ...

Choosing high school courses can feel high-stakes—and for good reason. According to a survey from the National Association for College Admission Counseling, nearly 87% of colleges believe curriculum ...

Students pursuing or likely to pursue majors in Mathematics, Chemistry, Geophysics, Geology-Geophysics, or Physics, or following the B.S. program in Computer Science, should take one of the Calculus ...

Most students don’t aspire to careers that will require calculus, so high schools must create sequences of math courses that reflect the wide variety of young people’s occupational goals, a math ...

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

In suburban Howard County, Md., lots of students take calculus in high school. Or at least, lots of white and Asian students do. In 2011, African-American and Hispanic students made up about 30 ...

Two recent California laws try to address this problem. Assembly Bill 705 allows most students to skip all sorts of remedial classes in favor of full credit courses that can transfer to a four-year ...