Across the country this fall, millions of college students are walking into math classrooms worried about their future — perhaps with good reason. For decades, mathematics — particularly college ...
While most states have graduation rates between 80-95%, math proficiency is most often below 50%. (There’s a wide range in ...
ALBANY, Ore. – It’s 7:15 on a Monday morning in May at Linn-Benton Community College in northwestern Oregon. Math professor Michael Lopez, a tape measure on his belt, paces in front of the 14 students ...
Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...
FAIRFAX, Va. – Diego Fonseca looked at the computer and took a breath. It was his final attempt at the math placement test for his first year of college. His first three tries put him in pre-calculus, ...
A 1956 New York Times article details a report from the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, revealing that in elementary and secondary school, mathematics earned the title of “the most hated ...
First-year college students started this school year with a lot stacked against them. On top of moving away from home for the first time, many had to face a tough reality: Covid robbed them of ...
An Iowa professor is expanding what it means to understand mathematics — not just for students, but for those who teach it.Dr. Abby Rocha, an assistant professor of mathematics at Central College in ...