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 ...

A San Diego area community college that moved early to eliminate remedial math courses is drawing lots of attention across the state for success in teaching math. Not only are students at Cuyamaca ...

Students can’t succeed in math if they’re never exposed to it. And many students never get access to advanced—or even some foundational—math in high school. New federal civil rights data and an ...

Administrators at Maryland’s Calvert County Public Schools believed the math classes they added to their course catalog years ...

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 ...

High school students planning to apply to the University of California now have a broader set of courses they can take to meet the math requirement for admission to the public university system. As ...

Last fall, the Stanford Mathematics Department introduced a new course titled MATH 18: “Foundations for Calculus.” The addition was a major step in the department’s ongoing efforts to make its ...

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 ...

Wayne State University has suspended its requirement that all students take a mathematics course, striking at the heart of a debate over whether math should be a mandatory part of general education.

The first math course a student takes depends on his or her background. In most cases, it will be MATH 105 (Calculus I), 106 (Calculus II), 205 (Linear Algebra), or 206 (Multivariable Calculus). Here ...