Calculus can derail STEM pathways. Twelve colleges are redesigning gateway math courses to help more students persist.

Calculus. For many high school students, it's the Mt. Everest of high school courses, the pinnacle of curricular attainment. "My daughter's taking Calculus!" is a phrase that's meant to impress ...

In the Idea of Limits video, we introduce the idea of limits and discuss how it underpins all of the major concepts in calculus. In the Limit Laws video, we introduce the limit laws and discuss how to ...

For more than 30 years, calculus has been seen as the pinnacle of high school math—essential for careers in the hard sciences, and an explicit or unspoken prerequisite for top-tier colleges. But now, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Successful completion of high school calculus has long been an unofficial must-have for those seeking admission to the nation’s ...

Calculus often seems intimidating, but it’s built on simple ideas you already understand, like patterns, rates of change, and accumulation. This clear, step-by-step explanation breaks down the core ...

For some high school students, statistics and other data science courses have unseated calculus as the de facto option for pursuing advanced math, in part due to targeted state efforts to expand ...

Through the MIT4America Calculus Project, students and alumni are tutoring students in underresourced high schools across the country.

Kimberly Miranda is the brainy daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and the first in her family to attend college. But she almost didn’t make it to the California Institute of Technology. Her Redwood ...