Developmental math poses one of the biggest and most immutable challenges in higher education. Interventions to improve student success rates such as corequisite designs, curriculum alignment with ...

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 ...

For community-college students, math can be a dream-killer. They may be required to repeat classes they don’t need. Or they may need a different approach to the subject. Statewide, about 40% of all ...

Are high school students getting the preparation they need for college math? The question, long a focus of study in K-12 math education and policy, is now the subject of a Senate inquiry. Sen. Bill ...

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 ...

How do I know what math course I should take? "Prerequisite" is a term for "something necessary as preparation for something else." In the case of math placement, prerequisites come in the form of ...

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics offers a 2-year M.A. program with a traditional core of Real Analysis and Abstract Algebra courses together with a range of electives in mathematics and ...

Jumping from high school to college-level statistics and geometry can feel like learning a new language. The concepts get ...

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 ...