Want to help your eighth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand rational and irrational numbers. Know that a rational number can be ...

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 ...

All I really need to know I learned in calculus class. I say that with apologies to author Robert Fulghum and his theory that we receive all of life's pertinent information in kindergarten. Those ...

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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 ...

Determine if the following equation represents a function: ...

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The first step is to calculate the derivative of the function, often denoted as f' (x). The derivative represents the rate of ...

Want to help your 12th-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. For high school students, math skills and understandings are organized not by grade ...