College can be thrilling, demanding, and unpredictable. The need for mathematics is one item that always surprises pupils. Many others share your question about the math courses needed in college.

Washington’s 10-year-old I-BEST program is a groundbreaking approach to teaching community-college students who need help catching up in math, reading and writing, and it’s been widely copied ...

For many students, this is where community college begins – in a remedial arithmetic class, reviewing mathematics concepts they learned, or should have learned, before they graduated from high school.

At first, they were isolated experiments. Community colleges were rolling back their remedial math requirements. Students who would have been required to take anywhere from one to four remedial ...

College algebra, listed as a freshman-level math requirement at most major universities, is designed to prepare students for calculus. But only about 20% of majors require higher-level math.

Opinion: The Lone Star State has spent decades striving to expand access to Advanced Placement (AP) math courses, but the ...

Even for those who dedicate their lives to math, it can be hard to see beyond the numbers. Lost in the formulas and figures are the real-world applications of the discipline. Franklin College ...

Linn-Benton Community College is finding ways to teach math in more applied ways, so that students can pick up those skills and get into the workplace. It’s 7:15 on a cold gray Monday morning in ...

Before recent reforms, community college students who needed extra math support were typically placed in remedial courses like elementary algebra. These classes didn’t count toward transfer ...

Education Lab College students are still struggling with basic math. Professors blame the pandemic Updated: Aug. 31, 2023, 8:37 a.m. | Published: Aug. 31, 2023, 8:27 a.m.

This both solidified their mathematics foundation and started them off in college with at least one high grade toward their college GPA. Unfortunately, a new law, Assembly Bill 1705, going into full ...

Many of his students attended lower-achieving high schools, where math was not a focus. And some have never taken an algebra class. “It’s an urban community college,” said Owens, 65.