Calculus can derail STEM pathways. Twelve colleges are redesigning gateway math courses to help more students persist.

Some math educators want to see more pathways considered when weighing math achievement and looking to college admissions.

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Correction & clarification: This article was updated to remove incorrect details about math courses and departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Math professor ...

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Concepts covered in this course include: standard functions and their graphs, limits, continuity, tangents, derivatives, the definite integral, and the fundamental theorem of calculus. Formulas for ...