The past is a deadly weapon.

Newspaper headlines are often filled with global issues such as climate change and the greenhouse effect, which naturally raise questions like: How can we model changes in sea levels caused by these ...

Antidifferentiation is the reverse of differentiation. It is a fundamental concept in calculus and is essential in solving problems related to area, motion, and accumulation. Use this page to revise ...

This course introduces students to topics in mathematics that have real-world applications, include sets and Venn diagrams, counting principles; basic concepts of probability, conditional probability ...

For some high school students, statistics and other data science courses have unseated calculus as the de facto option for pursuing advanced math, in part due to targeted state efforts to expand ...

Recall that an indefinite integral (or antiderivative) is so called as it provides a family of solutions with a constant term. It is called indefinite as the constant \(c\) can take any real value, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention in the 17th century, it stood on a shaky ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

Abstract: Scientists and engineers have always sought different approaches when it comes to studying and modeling natural phenomena. After all, this is how academics study nature. Fractional calculus ...

Lisa Rodriguez teaches Algebra II and Pre-Calculus Honors and is co-director of the Calculus Project at Brookline High. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

BROOKLINE — It was a gray morning in July, and most of their peers were spending the summer sleeping late and hanging out with friends. But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at ...