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 ...

For decades, high-achieving high school students have been told the surest way to impress selective colleges is to take calculus. In a recent national survey of 133 admissions officers, 74% said the ...

Lisa Rodriguez teaches Algebra II and Pre-Calculus Honors and is co-director of the Calculus Project at Brookline High. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

No parent, teacher, adviser or other responsible educator would ever recommend, much less require, a student to take a course they had only a 20% chance of passing. But that is exactly the new policy ...

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Students come to Bethel with a variety of backgrounds and histories in math that may have included previous work in algebra, precalculus, or calculus. Success in Bethel’s Precalculus and Calculus 1 ...

Even in the birthplace of microchips and iPhones, unequal access to advanced math starts early for many California students. Luis Castro Limon, an incoming senior in Pomona Unified, has seen the ...

At CU Boulder, students have several math courses to choose from, based on their intended major. While some courses do not require a prerequisite or prior math experience, others will require a math ...

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Many parents relish reliving moments from our childhoods through our children, and doing homework with them is its own kind of madeleine. For Steve Levitt of “Freakonomics” fame — who is, in his own ...