Braintree, Massachusetts, May 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Calculus Project, a nonprofit organization that develops and executes research-backed strategies that improve mathematics education for ...

BRAINTREE - Did you like doing math in school? Many people didn't. But a non-profit in Massachusetts is increasing the number of students of color and low-income students in advanced level math ...

The Calculus Project puts underrepresented students in a cohort of their peers and empowers them to soar. What’s so discriminatory about that? On a hot day last summer, I roused two reluctant ...

After noticing a lack of African American, Latino and low-income students in high level math classes, former Belmont High School Dean of Students Adrian Mims lead a team of teachers and school leaders ...

BROOKLINE — In the early 2000s, when longtime math teacher and then-dean of students Adrian Mims scanned Brookline High School's calculus and advanced-placement calculus classes, he saw few ...

Caleb Vitalus always liked math, even if it was sometimes difficult. He liked the order it provided, the step-by-step way it untangled problems. “It’s like a story being told for me. I like getting to ...

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) industries are booming in Massachusetts, but racial minority representation in those fields remains low. About 600,000 people work in STEM ...

More than a decade ago, when Adrian Mims was working on his dissertation, he uncovered a confusing pattern in Black students’ math trajectories in the suburban district he was studying. While many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, high-achieving high school students have been told the surest way to impress selective colleges is to take calculus.