Pathways Through Calculus

Innovative, research-based curricula to improve STEM persistence

Today we are excited to share an
open-source curriculum that creates
broadly accessible onramps into calculus.
Across the country, calculus requirements
act as a gatekeeper to STEM disciplines,
making these courses a key component
of a multifaceted, complex, and urgent
issue that interfaces with issues of social
justice and national economic needs.
New research in higher education finds
the more college math courses a student
has to take before they can enroll in
their first calculus class, the less likely
the student is to complete their calculus
requirements. We meet this challenge by
building a sequence of entry-level courses
that promotes productive mathematical
practices, encourages ambitious interactive
instruction, highlights mathematics as a
sense-making tool that explains the world
in which we live, and shortens our students’
pathways to completing calculus.

Features
• Free and fully customizable open-source and open-access materials
• $5 - $6 student workbooks available from Amazon which are sold at cost,
keeping prices low and student engagement high
• An online customizable homework system connected to each of the lessons
• Detailed documentation on how to use the materials to help promote productive
mathematical conversations in classrooms
• The opportunity for students to begin in Intermediate Algebra and finish
Calculus in three semesters
• Integration of calculus with key precalculus topics
• Materials that invite students to actively construct mathematical concepts
• An invitation to join a community of educators as we reflect together and build
better mathematical experience

Materials
Intermediate Algebra: Functions and Their Rates of
A Functional Approach Changes
Brendan Kelly, Emina Alibegovic, Janet Chen, Robin Gottlieb,
Rebecca Noonan-Heale, Brendan Kelly, The Preceptor Group
Anna Schoening, Amanda Cangelosi

Contact: Brendan Kelly- kelly@math.harvard.edu