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Calculus as a High School Course
Over the past quarter century,
2- and 4-year college enrollment in first
semester calculus has remained constant while high school enrollment in
calculus has grown tenfold, from 50,000 to 500,000, and continues to grow
at 6% per year. We have reached the cross-over point where each year more
students study first semester calculus in US high schools than in all 2-
and 4-year colleges and universities in the United States. There is
considerable overlap between these populations. Most high school students
do not earn college credit for the calculus they study. This talk will
present some of the data that we have about this phenomenon and its
effects and will raise issues of how colleges and universities should
respond.
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