Debbie Morgan smiles with pride when a previously underperforming British student gives a correct answer in class after learning math the Shanghai way. "Shanghai math embodies a belief that every ...

The financial industry increasingly relies on large volumes of numerical data as financial products become more complex. As a result, analysts and financial engineers have turned to computational ...

Ordinary differential equations; Sturm-Liouville theory, properties of special functions, solution methods including Laplace transforms. Fourier series: eigenvalue problems and expansions in ...

Explicit learning goals Interactive lectures Transformed homework problems (including a "bank" of potential HW problems) Common student difficulties & in-class group activities/tutorials Concept tests ...

Studies properties and solutions of partial differential equations. Covers methods of characteristics, well-posedness, wave, heat and Laplace equations, Green's functions, and related integral ...

Fierce wars continue to rage around math instruction, but there are many practical changes we should make for mathematics students upon which most of us can probably agree, that could transform their ...

Parents and teachers across the country are freaking out over the new Common Core education standards, which encourage a different way of teaching math. Teachers are now told to focus on comprehension ...