If you are a new engineering first-year student starting in the fall semester, you will most likely be pre-enrolled in an Applied Math (APPM) pre-calculus or calculus course based on patterns of prior ...

Students pursuing or likely to pursue majors in Mathematics, Chemistry, Geophysics, Geology-Geophysics, or Physics, or following the B.S. program in Computer Science, should take one of the Calculus ...

Poster presentation: View a poster (PDF) describing this project from the 2013 Symposium on Teaching and Learning. Description: We and our colleagues in SFU's Department of Mathematics have recorded ...

Calculus: A word that triggers involuntary fear spasms in the best of us. But the days of slogging through tedious textbook derivatives are over, if you want them to be. For the past few years, people ...

Standing in four inches of flood water, one UC San Diego professor continued teaching his calculus class this week during powerful El Niño storms, earning major credit with students. On Wednesday, ...

Staring at a page of derivatives or integrals can feel like trying to read a foreign language. Your professor moves fast, the ...

How bad of an idea is it be to take the two courses that are at the exact same time? (meaning I would only be able to go to one course's lecture) The two courses are first year physics, and ...

What is clear to us is that our students are college students. They are here because they want a higher education. We have decided to turn the mirror around and look at our practices rather than focus ...

Two years ago, when the online education craze began, big-name professors started cranking out videos about hot topics such as cryptography or startup engineering. Left in the dust was the ...

AMONG the many ways in which the American Mathematical Society has endeavoured to popularise and develop the study of higher mathematics, not the least remarkable and useful is the practice of holding ...