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Staring at a page of derivatives or integrals can feel like trying to read a foreign language. Your professor moves fast, the ...

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 ...

Louis Leithold, who died April 29, wrote a number of books on calculus and taught at the university level. But his real passion was teaching high school students, as he did late in his life at Malibu ...

Math frequently features in my dreams, and never in a good way. In the latest nightmare I was punted back to high school to retake precalculus. I sat there, embarrassed, hoping to will myself into ...