Calculus

Turner tells local TV station KCCI that he's been an Etch-a-Sketch enthusiast since middle school, and that “Etch A Sketch is just an extension of my mathematical mind because it taught me calculus before I knew what calculus was." The teen wants to become an aerospace engineer and has until May 1 to ...

A group of five East Surry High School students are taking an interactive Calculus III class as a part of their dual enrollment studies at Surry Community College. Community college math instructor Ann Slate teaches the students through the Career and College Promise tuition-free program at Surry ...

The longest playoff drought in the NBA has ended as the Timberwolves finally made the playoffs. Of course, even though we should certainly celebrate a victorious season (even if they struggled across the finish line), the hard part comes next. Finishing with the 8th seed, the Wolves now have the matchup ...

The Fox Valley AP Calculus Test Review Afternoon will be offered from 2 to 6 p.m. April 22 at Menasha High School. The review is free and open to all students. AB session leaders will be Kristen Klunder, Appleton North, and Nicole Esterling, Little Chute. BC session leaders will be Tim Christensen, ...

Nikhil already knew he got a "5," the equivalent of an "A," on his AP Calculus BC test. Then he read this sentence: "I am writing to share some exciting news." He didn't have to read the rest to know the letter would confirm he got a perfect score. He immediately texted his parents and math teacher, Peter ...

Once upon a time — specifically, from the dawn of the “talkie” in the 1920s until just a few years ago — Hollywood's calculus regarding how sequels got made was simple. A movie came out, did big business, won over fans, and the captains of industry in the studio C-suite called out for another one: the ...

What a Nixed Energy Project Reveals About Vietnam's South China Sea Calculus .... Indeed, Vietnamese policymakers have long grappled with the sobering reality that part of Vietnam's regional calculus is acknowledging that as a smaller country, its fate will be shaped as much by what others do as it is ...

His Math 182: Calculus II course has been recently QM-approved and is the first advanced calculus class at TMCC to gain the coveted certification. “I was the first one to develop an online calculus class in the state—I teach both Calculus I and II, and I felt that the online Calculus II was the best class I have ...

Though they've been a band for only a little over a year, the creative chemistry between the members of Brown Calculus indeed seems like divine kismet. The duo's brand of R&B is part spiritual jazz meditation, part self-affirmation, with Burgos' spacy, keyboard-driven beats pairing perfectly with Kimmons' ...

He received a 5 on his AP Calculus AB exam, the highest possible score, and may have been the only fifth-grader to take the exam last year. Paul Rosu, now a sixth-grader, took the AP Calculus AB exam at the end of his fifth grade year, when he was only 10 years old. His father Radu Rosu, a statistician, ...

ALGONQUIN, IL – Jacobs High School senior Nick Belizzi is among a select few who answered every question correctly on the challenging AP Calculus BC Exam in 2017. In fact, he is just one of three in the world who got a perfect score on the difficult assessment. The three perfect scores across the world ...

I think that in order to graduate from Columbia, everyone should be required to take one semester of single-variable calculus and one semester of statistics. These two courses are probably more important to general intellectual development than any other courses offered at Columbia, for the reason that ...

In response to a question from Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Rogers agreed that what has been done so far “hasn't changed the calculus, in my sense—it certainly hasn't generated the change in behavior that I think we all know we need.” Russian President Vladimir Putin, in other words, has ...

Chapel Hill, N.C. — How many fifth-graders in the U.S. took the AP Calculus AB exam last year? Radu Rosu of Chapel Hill wanted to find the answer. He knew one child who did – his 10-year-old son, Paul Rosu, who earned the highest score on the test, a 5. Advanced Placement Calculus exams are ...

He credits his North Atlanta math teacher, David Ehrman, for in-depth instruction and a series of YouTube videos called “Essence of Calculus” for preparing him to take the test. Gaining an intuitive understanding of how calculus works helped him correctly answer even the most difficult problems: “If you ...

oncerned about the outcome of some pharmaceutical company mergers and acquisitions, federal antitrust regulators have initiated a new policy toward asset sales that legal experts say may limit the pool of potential buyers and change the calculus for certain deals. In general, the agency scrutinizes a ...

Oil prices have nearly doubled in the past two years to a recent $62 a barrel, as global demand has outstripped supply. Prices could head even higher if production in Venezuela falls off precipitously. “The fundamental backdrop for oil is constructive,” says Helima Croft, global head of commodity strategy at ...