It's a Saturday afternoon at Boston University’s School of Education, where Elliot Kastner, a former Dartmouth College football player turned mechanical engineer, is addressing a group of students. He ...

After noticing a lack of African American, Latino and low-income students in high level math classes, former Belmont High School Dean of Students Adrian Mims lead a team of teachers and school leaders ...

A right-leaning national grassroots organization is targeting a Massachusetts-based program designed to advance math education among students of color and low-income students. Parents Defending ...

Caleb Vitalus always liked math, even if it was sometimes difficult. He liked the order it provided, the step-by-step way it untangled problems. “It’s like a story being told for me. I like getting to ...

The Calculus Project puts underrepresented students in a cohort of their peers and empowers them to soar. What’s so discriminatory about that? On a hot day last summer, I roused two reluctant ...

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BROOKLINE — In the early 2000s, when longtime math teacher and then-dean of students Adrian Mims scanned Brookline High School's calculus and advanced-placement calculus classes, he saw few ...

In the Idea of Limits video, we introduce the idea of limits and discuss how it underpins all of the major concepts in calculus. In the Limit Laws video, we introduce the limit laws and discuss how to ...

College students learn more calculus in an active learning course in which students solve problems during class than in a traditional lecture-based course. That’s according to a peer-reviewed study my ...