Math is a notorious stumbling block that trips up students seeking college degrees. Every year, tens of thousands of young people fail to graduate because they can’t earn enough math credits. To help ...

MATTOON, Ill. (WCIA) — Lake Land College in Mattoon has eliminated developmental math courses, becoming the first Community College in Illinois to do so. Sarah Harley and Bambi Jones, math instructors ...

O ne of the biggest roadblocks to student success, according to many educators, is college algebra, the traditional gateway college math course. Students with weak math skills often get stuck in ...

Most students don’t aspire to careers that will require calculus, so high schools must create sequences of math courses that reflect the wide variety of young people’s occupational goals, a math ...

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If you are a new engineering first-year student starting in the fall semester, you will most likely be pre-enrolled in an Applied Math (APPM) pre-calculus or calculus course based on patterns of prior ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. For many students ...

Imagine it’s a student’s first day of ninth grade in the San Francisco Unified School District in 2012. Let’s call her Veronica. On her schedule is a math class full of other ninth graders repeating ...

Today’s lesson is how to add mixed numbers: 6 2 / 13 + 8 7 / 26. “Is anyone still having difficulty finding the least common denominator?” the instructor, Robert Fusco, asks. One student raises her ...