Palo Alto High School students attend a child development class on the first day of school for the 2025-26 year on Aug. 14, 2025. Photo by Lisa Moreno Palo Alto High School and Henry M. Gunn High ...

A council of administrators and instructional leaders have rejected a teacher’s offer to teach Multivariable Calculus at Palo Alto High School – a blow to students and parents who have advocated for ...

We walk through an optimization problem step by step, clearly explaining how to identify variables, set up the correct function, apply derivatives, and find maximum or minimum values. Each step is ...

Picture this: I’m hunched over a garage floor, scrubbing away at the gunky paint remover I’ve spread over a fire-engine-red paint to make way for the aesthetically-pleasing home gym that’s going to ...

For some high school students, statistics and other data science courses have unseated calculus as the de facto option for pursuing advanced math, in part due to targeted state efforts to expand ...

Multivariable control systems design and optimization addresses the task of regulating multiple interdependent process variables within a single framework. Unlike single‐loop controllers, ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

Students catch up under a giant oak tree on the first day of school at Palo Alto High School on August 14, 2024. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. In an effort to provide students more advancement ...