A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

study of numbers, measurements, patterns, shapes, equations, relations, functions, change, symmetry, structure, sets and operations modeling of physical phenomena to better understand and predict ...

The Math Department’s introductory courses, some of which have been around for over 40 years, are undergoing a “long-awaited revision,” according to a March 11 email from the department. The changes ...

In an attempt to attract more freshmen to theoretical mathematics, the math department expanded its offerings this school year. Last fall, it introduced the MATH 60 “Modern Mathematics: Discrete ...

Last fall, the Stanford Mathematics Department introduced a new course titled MATH 18: “Foundations for Calculus.” The addition was a major step in the department’s ongoing efforts to make its ...