Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

Calculus has a formidable reputation as being difficult and/or unpleasant, but it doesn’t have to be. Bringing humor and a sense of play to the topic can go a long way toward demystifying it. That’s ...

I think there is a serious disconnect between what we actually teach in a calculus class, and what students ought to be learning from (and taking away from) a calculus class. In my syllabus for ...