Want to model the progress of a disease over a month's time? Sure, just write a calculus equation that would model the statistics of the disease's progression for one hour at a time. Got that done?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students and alumni at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working with high school students across the United ...

The Mathematical Association of America has recognized BYU's calculus program as one of the top 16 in the nation. In fall of 2010 over 200 colleges and universities participated in a survey supported ...

BROOKLINE — It was a gray morning in July, and most of their peers were spending the summer sleeping late and hanging out with friends. But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at ...

The Mathematical Association of America, with headquarters in Washington, D.C., has named the Brigham Young University Department of Mathematics as one of 16 college or university programs that have ...

Amid the many signs of underperformance in American education, the growth and geographic spread of Advanced Placement courses in high schools is a widely admired success story. For several decades, AP ...

Student Lila Conley works on a calculus problem during the Bridge to Calculus summer program at Northeastern University. Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign ...

Students in MacArthur High School's Operation Calculus program have been taking field trips around the community to see different job opportunities and learn about hiring processes. The visits are ...

Thanks to the popular 1988 movie Stand and Deliver, many Americans know of the success that Jaime Escalante and his students enjoyed at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. During the 1980s, that ...

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 ...