Calculus can derail STEM pathways. Twelve colleges are redesigning gateway math courses to help more students persist.

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Some math educators want to see more pathways considered when weighing math achievement and looking to college admissions.

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Black students have been excluded from high-quality mathematics for generations — with dire outcomes academically and ...

The familiar, hierarchical sequence of math instruction starts with counting, followed by addition and subtraction, then multiplication and division. The computational set expands to include bigger ...

In recent years, math educators and advocates have pushed to diversify high school course offerings, introducing new pathways that culminate in statistics or data analysis. But new research suggests ...

For more than 30 years, calculus has been seen as the pinnacle of high school math—essential for careers in the hard sciences, and an explicit or unspoken prerequisite for top-tier colleges. But now, ...