Half of students fail college algebra. Reformers say outdated college math requirements are gatekeeping graduation.

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Kuniyuki is a full-time tenured math professor and assistant chair of the mathematics department at San Diego Mesa College. He lives in San Diego. Foster is an adjunct math professor with over 40 ...

Arlington, Va. — Community colleges need to do a much better job of explaining to students how the course sequences in mathematics and science fit together and lead to degrees and careers, said P. Uri ...

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 ...

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 May ...

This lecture series in Mathematics Education is supported by Teachers for a New Era (TNE), and is organized by Profs. Juliana Belding, CK Cheung and Solomon Friedberg (Mathematics) and Prof. Lillie ...