Allow me to make a shameless plug for a very cool project currently underway by my GVSU colleague Matt Boelkins. He is writing a free, open-source calculus textbook that will be available in PDF form ...

Authors: L. Goldstein, D. Schneider, D. Lay, and N. Asmar Textbook title: Calculus and Its Applications, 5th Custom UB edition. The 5th custom UB edition consists of chapters 1-10 and 12 of the ...

Earlier this year, the Seattle School Board changed the kind of math textbooks used in our elementary schools, selecting texts intended to be used with explicit instruction. Under explicit instruction ...

My column on math textbooks and the column of two weeks earlier on educational reform each make reference to my son’s teachers in the Seattle Public Schools. There were several fine ones, but the one ...

I'm looking to review my science & math basics. Why? Just personal satisfaction, really. I want to brush up on my core knowledge before I lodge my head back in the clouds where it belongs.