Is calculus still the best sign of college readiness? As testing policies evolve, colleges face a bigger question: What does ...

The University of Michigan is redesigning foundational math to connect calculus to real-world engineering—and get students to ...

A well known University of California-Berkeley mathematics professor has slammed admissions standards at the top-flight ...

Does Advanced Placement Calculus carry too much weight in college admissions decisions? Some math experts are questioning the weight the course carries in lieu of other measures of math achievement ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention in the 17th century, it stood on a shaky ...

A UC Berkeley mathematics professor is raising concerns about student preparedness, saying some incoming calculus students ...

Rockmore explains a case made by Freakonomics economist and provocateur Steven Levitt, who says he believes math pedagogy in general needs a big update, including an increased emphasis on statistics ...

The familiar, hierarchical sequence of math instruction starts with counting, followed by addition and subtraction, then multiplication and division. The computational set expands to include bigger ...

Math education needs a reboot. Kids today are growing up into a world awash in data, and they need new skills to make sense of it all. The list of high school math courses in the U.S. hasn’t changed ...