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Last year, the Stanford Undergraduate Admissions Office changed its high school math curriculum recommendations for prospective applicants, emphasizing conceptual math courses such as algebra and ...

As more than 30 million American elementary schoolchildren pack their backpacks to head back to school this fall, one subject just might be the most dreaded of all—mathematics. A distaste for ...

Experts are questioning the relevance of pushing all college-bound students to take calculus, arguing that the “narrow pathway toward calculus … fails to serve most students.” Credit: Erika Rich for ...

Applied mathematicians can be found in almost every area of business and industry, including communications, manufacturing R&D, defense, engineering and business consulting, finance, and education.

The Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM) at Northwestern University is highly interdisciplinary and focused on applications. Our faculty and students connect with ...

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) wants to eliminate the “I’m not a math person” mindset with career-focused classes.

The Calculus of Variations is a research field whose boundaries have been constantly pushed by questions emerging both in pure mathematics and in the applied sciences. The scope of this Workshop is to ...

Taken concurrently with EGR/MAT/PHY 191. An integrated course that covers the material of PHY 103 and MAT 201 with the emphasis on applications to engineering. Math topics include: vector calculus; ...

Mathematics is both a science and a tool for many other disciplines, including the physical and life sciences, engineering, economics and sociology. The M.S. degree provides advanced mathematical ...