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 ...

I created these Calculus animations for my Math 157 class in the Fall of 2007. Ingredients: Matlab, Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, and a fair amount of patience. Enjoy. Sine and Cosine on the circle.

Learn your trigonometry, kids, and you might find yourself animating the next “Finding Nemo.” That was the message Tony DeRose, senior scientist at Pixar Animation Studios, spread to a mixed-aged ...

For many high school students who show talent in math, or at least a moderate degree of skill in that subject, their choice of a senior-year math course may not amount to much of a choice at all. They ...

Prepares students for the challenging content and pace of the calculus sequence required for all engineering majors. The course covers algebra, trigonometry and selected topics in analytical geometry.

This teacher believes that “deprioritizing abstract math like calculus in favor of practical math, with a focus on statistical literacy, reduces barriers to entry and will help increase diversity in ...

In this study we investigated above-average high school calculus students from Japan and the United States in order to determine any differences in their conceptual understanding of calculus and their ...