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The rush to calculus is bad for students and their futures in STEM

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imageThe author, teaching at the very front of his calculus class.Kevin Knudson, CC BY

Two years ago I taught a section of Calculus I to approximately 650 undergrad students in a large auditorium. Perhaps “taught” isn’t the right word. “Performed,” maybe? Unsurprisingly, my student evaluation scores were not as high as they...

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