A quieter revolution taking place aims to yank calculus instruction into the 21st century by teaching students through the use of real-world problems.

Meanwhile, newer math courses are not seen as rigorous; 62 percent of respondents say that calculus is more rigorous than courses such as data science and statistics. Source: Just Equations and NACAC.

It’s often said that mathematics is the language of science. There’s a great deal of truth to that. In the case of electromagnetic waves, it was a key first step for Maxwell to translate the laws that ...

Calculus involves many different equations, but it began with a single breakthrough. Two 17th-century thinkers, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, independently found a way to formalize the ...

Charting a New Course: Investigating Barriers on the Calculus Pathway to STEM, published by the California Education Learning Lab and Just Equations, is based on a review of more than 200 books, ...

Earlier this year, Mathematician Ian Stewart came out with an excellent and deeply researched book titled "In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World" that takes a look at the ...

Joseph J. Kohn, who played a key role in extending the mathematics of calculus, died on Sept. 13 in Plainsboro, N.J. He was 91. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his son, Eduardo, and by ...

The problem is that hundreds of thousands of students believe they will benefit from calculus, and relatively few of them are in that third scenario. The first two scenarios describe far more students ...

According to the Just Equations report, 53% of admissions officers said calculus gives applicants an edge in admissions. “It’s a slight majority,” says Burdman.