Learning Assistant Juan Ignacio Sanchez Quintana, center, works with a student in Calculus I class. FIU changed the way it teaches calculus, and managed to increase the pass rate. Miami, Florida, ...

I’ve never forgotten my college professor for integral calculus, Mr. Whatever-his-name-was. I can still see him, standing at the front of the lecture hall, shirtsleeves rolled up, wielding a piece of ...

Calculus is a branch of mathematics that explores variables and how they change by looking at them in infinitely small pieces called infinitesimals. Calculus, as it is practiced today, was invented in ...

The following is an excerpt of Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz. Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, computers, or microwave ovens. We ...

Kimberly Miranda is the brainy daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and the first in her family to attend college. But she almost didn’t make it to the California Institute of Technology. Her Redwood ...

A few years ago, math instructors at Stevens Institute of Technology noticed their calculus students consistently struggling with the basics once they reached upper-level courses -- or, in some cases, ...