Part of the premise of Good Will Hunting is that if you’re smart enough, you should skip formal education and teach yourself with books. And that was before prestigious universities started uploading ...

If you went to engineering school, you probably remember going to a lot of calculus classes. You may or may not remember a lot of calculus. If you didn’t go to engineering school, you will find that ...

When students begin to study calculus, equations and their graphs are mostly drawn on a “flat” plane. It’s when students proceed to advanced calculus that they find paper and pencil inadequate. A new ...

This post was updated March 10 at 11:10 a.m. UCLA researchers published a study discussing the success of the Life Sciences 30 series, a set of classes at UCLA designed to revitalize the way life ...

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 ...

I took AP calculus in high school, graduated from Georgia Tech, taught high-school math and finally settled in as an analyst at a major airline. I couldn’t agree more with James Markarian questioning ...

Should high-schoolers study calculus? Not necessarily, according to James Markarian, chief technology officer of SnapLogic. He began thinking about the topic when his 14-year-old daughter was doing ...