Education Week

Calculus Is the Peak of High School Math. Maybe It’s Time to Change That

For more than 30 years, calculus has been seen as the pinnacle of high school math—essential for careers in the hard sciences, and an explicit or unspoken prerequisite for top-tier colleges. But now, ...
JSTOR Daily

Multiple Comparisons for Multiple Endpoints in Agricultural Experiments

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Vol. 18, No. 4 (December 2013), pp. 578-593 (16 pages) Agricultural experiments often have a completely randomized design, and ...
Nature

From counting with stones to artificial intelligence: the story of calculus

Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe Steven Strogatz Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2019) Midway through Infinite Powers, Steven Strogatz writes that Isaac Newton and ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Calculus courses’ continued use of video instruction draws student pushback

Penn calculus courses are teaching students through a flipped classroom method this semester as a continuation of the Math Department's COVID-19 policy. Students must watch lectures on their own time ...
JSTOR Daily

Methodologic Issues in Hospital Epidemiology. IV. Risk Ratios, Confounding, Effect Modification, and the Analysis of Multiple Variables

Jonathan Freeman, Donald A. Goldmann and John E. McGowan, Jr. Most information in hospital epidemiology comes from observational studies of hospitalized patients, not from planned experiments. Data ...