ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Good news: There's mounting evidence that changing calculus instruction works for the groups usually pushed out of STEM. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students.
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ED Surge
OCTOBER 3, 2023
The need to strengthen the science, technology, math and engineering (STEM) careers pipeline has received renewed interest lately. A number of instructors say it’s partly reconsidering how calculus, a crucial step toward STEM careers and often a “weed out” course in higher ed, is taught. Can math be taught [or] is it just a gift.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
But neither will happen unless we address the fundamental gatekeeper to all STEM fields: undergraduate calculus. But the pathway to careers in science and technology is anything but user-friendly, as revealed by the sheer number of college students opting to switch out of a STEM major after facing a college calculus class.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 3, 2024
A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. struggles with math instruction, there’s interest in cultural perceptions about who possesses strong math abilities. For a long time, I would have said I wasn’t a math person either. As the U.S.
ED Surge
JANUARY 17, 2023
It was from his dean, who said that the department had inspected their freshman calculus course, “Calculus for Life Sciences.” That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. The traditional calculus coursework, to people like Garfinkel, is totally outdated.
ED Surge
MARCH 4, 2024
Before then, Holmes had always earned good grades in math — mostly As — and when he found out his friends were in honors math, he felt he belonged there too. And so he approached his guidance counselor and asked why he wasn’t in the honors math class. “Oh, Oh, do you want to try?,” Holmes recalls the adviser replying.
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