Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention in the 17th century, it stood on a shaky ...

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 ...

Students at the Henry Ford Trade School in Dearborn, Michigan being taught shop trigonometry in the 1940's. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images) David Bressoud, a mathematics professor at Macalester College ...

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 ...

A large-scale study in Turkey found that high school students using unrestricted generative AI for math practice performed worse on independent exams than peers who did not use AI. While AI boosted ...

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...

For some high school students, statistics and other data science courses have unseated calculus as the de facto option for pursuing advanced math, in part due to targeted state efforts to expand ...

Two recent California laws try to address this problem. Assembly Bill 705 allows most students to skip all sorts of remedial classes in favor of full credit courses that can transfer to a four-year ...

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 ...