A heartfelt farewell email from a calculus professor has gone viral on Reddit, after the teacher thanked the poster for being an "awesome student." Redditor rennyyy853 posted the email to the ...

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 ...

Standing in four inches of flood water, one UC San Diego professor continued teaching his calculus class this week during powerful El Niño storms, earning major credit with students. On Wednesday, ...

A math professor at Brooklyn College wrote an academic paper contending that meritocracy in math class holds back racial minorities and is a tool of “whiteness,” Campus Reform reported on Monday.

A new video game that launched last month aims to help students learn one of the most difficult academic subjects while having fun. In the game, called “Variant,” users try to navigate an avatar ...

Finlay Whittlesey was the archetype of an idiosyncratic, old-school professor. He taught mathematics at Trinity College in Hartford for more than 41 years while continuing his own research on ...

A Johns Hopkins University professor argues in a Forbes magazine piece that high schools should stop teaching calculus, and instead teach computer science and statistics. Steven Salzberg, who teaches ...

It’s not easy to make confusing mathematics topics understandable, let alone interesting, to non-mathematicians, but University of Pennsylvania professor Robert Ghrist has figured out the formula.

If the adult world were a high school classroom, Doug Child might be labeled a “techie” and dismissed as someone who just talks to computers. But that would miss the point. Child is a genial guy who ...