Alina Siminiouk ’20 says the Smith students she is tutoring in calculus are convinced she has always been good at math. That’s not so, says Siminiouk—a Smith Posse scholar and one of seven peer ...

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Calculus may seem intimidating at first, but it consistently proves to be one of the most powerful tools in mathematics. This ...

Corrected: This story has been updated to reflect Ralph Pantozzi’s full statement. Corrected: A previous version of this story misstated the location of Kent Place School. It is located in Summit, N.J ...

Concepts covered in this course include: standard functions and their graphs, limits, continuity, tangents, derivatives, the definite integral, and the fundamental theorem of calculus. Formulas for ...

The Smith College Center for Women in Mathematics was recently honored for its success encouraging women and members of underrepresented minority groups to pursue studies in the mathematical sciences.

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