No parent, teacher, adviser, or other responsible educator would ever recommend, much less require, a student to take a course they had only a 20% chance of passing. But that is exactly the new policy ...

Ari Marchesso planned to spend this academic year at Pasadena City College getting a refresher on precalculus skills. The second-year student took trigonometry in 2020 at Blair High School and felt ...

Correction & clarification: This article was updated to remove incorrect details about math courses and departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Math professor ...

College students learn more calculus in an active learning course in which students solve problems during class than in a traditional lecture-based course. That’s according to a peer-reviewed study my ...

More than a decade ago, when Adrian Mims was working on his dissertation, he uncovered a confusing pattern in Black students’ math trajectories in the suburban district he was studying. While many ...

As longtime college math faculty in San Diego County, we were taken aback by the news about first-year students struggling with middle school math at UC San Diego. The idea that students might score ...