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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study — which involved 811 undergraduate students at Florida International University, a large public university in Miami — is perhaps the biggest randomized study of active learning methods in calculus, says Laird Kramer, a physicist at the university and one of the study’s authors.

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With Stressed-Out Students in Challenging Times, Faculty Must Embrace Caring Practices

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JULY 8, 2022

In the bad-old days of college teaching, especially in technical subjects, professors would stand before a classroom of freshmen and say, “Look to the right, look to the left. The idea was fear of failure would motivate students to do whatever it takes to stay above water academically. One of them will not graduate.”

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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

With Stressed-Out Students in Challenging Times, Faculty Must Embrace Caring Practices

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