Cassidy has asked 35 institutions about incoming students' math abilities, citing a "crisis" in K-12 math education.

The inquiry comes after a viral faculty report from the U. of California at San Diego found that the number of freshmen ...

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.

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Many students placed in remedial college math courses do not graduate. Ohio colleges are using co-requisite courses to improve math preparedness and completion rates. Co-requisite courses allow ...

Across the country this fall, millions of college students are walking into math classrooms worried about their future — perhaps with good reason. For decades, mathematics — particularly college ...

While many Americans are questioning the value of higher education, legions of Utah kids are blazing paths to college degrees ...

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 ...

Colleges have moved on from the pandemic, but a cohort of students is catching up.

Choosing high school courses can feel high-stakes—and for good reason. According to a survey from the National Association for College Admission Counseling, nearly 87% of colleges believe curriculum ...

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

When Alfred University Associate Math Professor Amanda Lipnicki took up knitting as an undergraduate student, she didnt immediately recognize how mathematics and geometry underlay the patterns of ...