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- Days after Danica McKellar had scored exceptionally well on her first calculus midterm at UCLA, a classmate tapped her on the shoulder and said, "'Excuse me, aren't you that girl ...' "That question always ends with '... from TV?'" says McKellar, who played Winnie Cooper on...
- Research articles 2007-08-14
- Boys vs. girls
- As a long-time fan of Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, I was disappointed by the errors in "The Boy Problem" (May 5). Whitehead asserts that the gender gap has developed not because "the boys of today are lagging behind the boys of yesterday [but because] the girls of today have surpassed the...
- Research articles 2006-06-02
- The Calculus of Green Business
- It's easy to think the whole green business eco-trend thing is driven by a horde of exceptionally energetic environmental activists. While the tree-huggers are definitely present, their influence is well-balanced by hard-nosed business analysts. Take a look at this: What you see above...
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Identifying and Removing a Calculus Prerequisite as a Bottleneck in Clemson's General Engineering Curriculum
- ABSTRACTA review of prerequisites often reveals that reasons for requiring a prerequisite may no longer prevail due to curriculum or course changes. Based on a study of a curriculum bottleneck unrelated to required mastery, the prerequisite structure in Clemson University's General Engineering curriculum (the common firstyear curriculum for all engineering...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- CALCULUS ABCS: A GATEWAY FOR FRESHMAN CALCULUS
- ABSTRACT: This paper describes a gateway testing program designed to ensure that students acquire basic skills in freshman calculus. Students must demonstrate they have mastered standards for "Absolutely Basic Competency"-the Calculus ABCs-in order to pass the course with a grade of C or better. We describe the background, standards, and...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- compleat modeler applications of calculus in medicine and biology and matc course at Dartmouth College, The
- ABSTRACT: This paper describes a successful course in mathematical biology at Dartmouth College. The course targets premedical students and biology majors, rather than mathematics majors, and requires only one semester of calculus as prerequisite. Real world problems form the basis of student work. KEYWORDS: This paper describes a successful course...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- Connecting the university to inner-city secondary school mathematics
- ABSTRACT: The study of advanced mathematics in secondary school is an important threshold. Especially affected is the further academic success of inner-city students. These are minority and/or new immigrant students and those from low-income families. Many inner-- city schools lack a strong curriculum, often including no opportunity to study calculus....
- Research articles 2002-06-01
- Calculus software. (Computers).(PowerTools)(Brief Article)
- Three educational add-on packages derived from materials developed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Brigham Young University offer complete sets of Maple-oriented resources for instructors of Calculus I, Calculus II, and Physics Education. Instructors can use the tools to bypass the laborious aspects of technology-based curriculum...
- Research articles 2001-11-19
- Bush Team Will Play by Tighter Rules When Making Policy
- The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs recently put government agencies on notice that all major new rules/regulations will be held to a higher standard than they were during the previous administration -- when political calculus and appeasing Democratic Party interest groups often seemed to guide the rule-making...
- Research articles 2001-10-29
- Discovering integrals with geometry
- ADDRESS: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kent State University Stark Campus, Canton OH 44720 USA. ABSTRACT: In this paper, students and teachers are provided with problems that lead them in finding the integrals of logarithmic and inverse trigonometric functions early in the calculus sequence by using the Fundamental Theorem...
- Research articles 2001-03-01
- Improving first-year engineering education
- Improving First-Year Engineering Education* ABSTRACT In September of 1998, the College of Engineering at the University ofMassachusetts Dartmouth UMD piloted an innovative, integrated, first-year curriculum. It dramatically changed 31 credits across two semesters. The program was modeled after several previous successful undergraduate experiments at other universities such as those in...
- Research articles 2001-01-01
- Collaborative workshops and student academic performance in introductory college mathematics courses: A study of a Treisman model math excel program
- High failure rates in introductory college mathematics courses, particularly among underrepresented groups of students, have been of concern for many years. One approach to the problem experiencing some success has been Treisman 's Emerging Scholars workshop model. The model involves supplemental workshops in which students solve problems in collaborative learning...
- Research articles 2000-11-01
- Advanced Statistics - advanced placement program shows increase in minority student test takers - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
- Since the Advanced Placement program began more than 40 years ago, minority participation has increased steadily. In 1978, 12 percent of AP test takers were students of color. In 2000, though not as high as many advocates would prefer, minority students accounted for 27 percent of AP test takers. ...
- Research articles 2000-10-26
- Kaplan Educational Centers
- Kaplan Educational Centers (www.kaptest.com) and APEX Online Learning (www.apex.netu.com) are jointly offering AP Test Prep. To be made available in the Spring of 2000, it will include courses for U.S. government & politics, statistics, calculus AB, macroeconomics and microeconomics. 700,000 students are expected to take AP exams this spring.
- Research articles 1999-12-01
- Assessment of the impact of freshman engineering course
- ABsTRAcT This study evaluates whether Purdue University's freshman engneering courses supply entering students with the necessary foundation to persist in engineering because of the skills they acquire in these courses. To measure this, we evaluate longitudinal data on retention and graduation rates of students that start in the standard first...
- Research articles 1998-10-01
- A Calculus of RiskA Calculus of Risk
- The engineering of financial instruments has emerged in response to turbulence during recent decades in ever more interconnected world markets: a result of floating exchange rates, oil crises, interest-rate shocks, and stock-market collapses. Financial engineering can lessen exposure to the perils of running a multibillion-dollar business or a small household....
- White papers
- Housing Price Index: Market Bottom Is a Long Way Off
- Dear Ali; As part of America's admittedly dwindling army of one-million-plus real estate agents, I await each monthly release of Case-Shiller Housing Price data with dread. Please say something positive about this month's numbers. Please. A: I have never been a huge Case-Shiller...
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
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- SS&C's Zoologic Learning Solutions Releases New Calculus Essentials Course
- Web-based Course Newest Addition to MBA Essentials Program WINDSOR, Conn. -- SS&C Technologies, Inc. (www.ssctech.com), a global provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, today announced the addition of Calculus EssentialsTM to its Zoologic Learning Solutions web-based course library. In addition to joining more than 760 web-based...
- Research articles 2008-08-21
- Business Process Management: The Third Wave - Business Process Modelling Language (BPML) and Pi-Calculus Foundations
- A process modeling language, Business Process Modeling Language BPML, has been published by the BPMI.org that provides many of the features practitioners and researchers have sought for years. This language is based on standards widely accepted by the IT industry and underpinned by a strong mathematical foundation, the Pi-Calculus. While...
- White papers 2003-01-17
- Student's Introduction to Mathematica: A Handbook for Precalculus, Calculus and Linear Algebra, The
- The Student's Introduction to Mathematica: A Handbook for Precalculus, Calculus and Linear Algebra Authors Bruce F Torrence and Eve A. Torrence Cambridge University Press 40 West 20th Street New York, NY 100 11-4211 1999: 280 pages Hardback $64.95; paperback $24.95 Reviewer Kevin McDougal University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Oshkosh WI, 54901 The...
- Research articles 2001-02-01
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