The Connecticut Mirror

The calculus of dumbing down community college math

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The Hechinger Report

TEACHER VOICE: Calculus is a roadblock for too many students; let’s teach statistics instead

This teacher believes that “deprioritizing abstract math like calculus in favor of practical math, with a focus on statistical literacy, reduces barriers to entry and will help increase diversity in ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Students with Calculus Credit: Math Class Choices

You may have earned academic college course credit by scoring well on Advanced Placement (AP) and/or International Baccalaureate (IB) examinations, or by receiving credit at a college or university ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

MATH 228-2: Multiple Integration and Vector Calculus

Cylindrical and spherical coordinates, double and triple integrals, line and surface integrals. Change of variables in multiple integrals; gradient, divergence, and ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

The origin of the “nabla” symbol

We’re about to start working with gradient vectors in Calculus 3, and this topic uses a curious mathematical symbol: the We’re about to start working with gradient vectors in Calculus 3, and this ...
Scientific American

To Keep Students in STEM fields, Let’s Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes

All routes to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees run through calculus classes. Each year, hundreds of thousands of college students take introductory calculus. But only a ...