Declining math skills are a real problem nationally, but UC San Diego is an unusual case—and other California colleges offer a range of promising models for rethinking calculus requirements.

I’ve heard classmates talk about “not being a math person,” but I’ve never thought of myself that way. I took four years of math in high school and passed all my classes with A’s and B’s. Yet, when I ...

Walter Hunter, who teaches a remedial algebra class at Montgomery County Community College, brought scissors to class last month so his students could cut their textbooks in half. The five-pound, ...

It doesn’t take long to compare the math course offerings at Santa Rosa Junior College this past spring and in the upcoming fall semester to see dramatic changes are underway. Several math classes ...

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The “crisis” in college math readiness prompted a new inquiry from Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to 35 universities. The ...

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Cal State plans to drop placement exams in math and English as well as the noncredit remedial courses that more than 25,000 freshmen have been required to take each fall — a radical move away from the ...

Rogelio Perez has long struggled with math. Had he entered California State University last year, his C grades and low standardized test scores would have steered him into a non-credit remedial math ...

Robert Gomez, 19, sophomore business major at CSUN, feels discouraged by the remedial, also known as supplemental instruction, work required for him. “I feel like quitting a lot of the time because ...

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