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.

Colleges created remedial education classes to ensure students were sufficiently prepared for more advanced material. But increasingly, there’s a sense that remedial courses are hurting the prospects ...

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 ...

College remediation is a big, expensive deal. More than two-thirds of students in two-year colleges take a remedial class at some point after enrolling, and about 40 percent of those in four-year ...

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 ...

Students missed a lot of high school instruction. Now many are behind, especially in math, and getting that degree could be harder. By Eliza Fawcett Jazeba Ahmad was a junior in high school when Covid ...

Placement into your courses in college can be scary. You might be wondering, “How do advisors decide which courses I belong in?” You might also be thinking, "I already have college credit from dual ...

Many students who lacked hands-on, in-person teachings due to the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and school closures are now struggling with basic math at the college level, according ...

Diego Fonseca looked at the computer and took a breath. It was his final attempt at the math placement test for his first year of college. His first three tries put him in pre-calculus, a blow for a ...

These days, you can’t teach statistics without also teaching students how to use computers to access and analyze data. But many students taking introductory statistics don’t have a computer science ...

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Is this a picture of something bad, or something good? Cognitive scientists call this the global-local processing dilemma: Do we perceive the overall image, or focus on the details? Education policy ...