Today's Challenge
Teaching Undergraduates Mathematics
May 11, 2009 08:30 AM to 09:00 AM
Speakers:
Bressoud, David
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More and more high school students are taking AP Calculus, but many are stopping there. Why are they not continuing? How can we close the gap between high school and college calculus courses? |
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Over the past quarter century, 2- and 4-year college enrollment in first semester calculus has remained constant while high school enrollment in calculus has grown tenfold, from 50,000 to 500,000, and continues to grow at 6% per year. We have reached the cross-over point where each year more students study first semester calculus in US high schools than in all 2- and 4-year colleges and universities in the United States. There is considerable overlap between these populations. Most high school students do not earn college credit for the calculus they study. This talk will present some of the data that we have about this phenomenon and its effects and will raise issues of how colleges and universities should respond. |
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