For Siddhant Bohra, math had always felt relatively straightforward. But as he pursued robotics engineering at the University of Michigan, the 20-year-old found that the clean, theoretical problems he ...

University calculus courses can often negatively and inequitably affect student success in STEM, as these challenging yet foundational classes can act as a barrier to achievement for students from ...

This resource is part of the set for “Essential mathematics for engineering and manufacturing” Aim: Learn to find the equation of a tangent to a curve in engineering contexts. Please feel free to ...

Poster presentation: View a poster (PDF) describing this project from the 2013 Symposium on Teaching and Learning. Description: We and our colleagues in SFU's Department of Mathematics have recorded ...

This resource is part of the set for “Essential mathematics for engineering and manufacturing” Aim: Determine standard differentials and use differentiation to calculate maximum and minimum values in ...