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Math frequently features in my dreams, and never in a good way. In the latest nightmare I was punted back to high school to retake precalculus. I sat there, embarrassed, hoping to will myself into ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. For decades, high-achieving high school students have been told the surest way to impress selective ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) — Some subjects in school are quite complicated. At Round Rock High School, AP Calculus is one of them. After seeing several students struggle to comprehend the subject, ...

Many parents relish reliving moments from our childhoods through our children, and doing homework with them is its own kind of madeleine. For Steve Levitt of “Freakonomics” fame — who is, in his own ...

The [Math Sorcerer] loves books. His latest acquisition is the famous Real and Complex Analysis, which is a very stout math book. How stout? Well, there are several chapters on holomorphic functions, ...

Louis Leithold, who died April 29, wrote a number of books on calculus and taught at the university level. But his real passion was teaching high school students, as he did late in his life at Malibu ...

Successful completion of high school calculus has long been an unofficial must-have for those seeking admission to the nation’s top colleges: The course has, for decades, served as a signal to ...

Learning Assistant Juan Ignacio Sanchez Quintana, center, works with a student in Calculus I class. FIU changed the way it teaches calculus, and managed to increase the pass rate. Miami, Florida, ...