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 ...

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 ...

This story was updated on Aug. 2, 2017. A new policy from the California State University system will soon allow some students to take math classes with pre-requisites other than intermediate algebra ...

A well known University of California-Berkeley mathematics professor has slammed admissions standards at the top-flight ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. In his new book The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions, political scientist Andrew Hacker proposes ...

ALBANY, Ore. – It’s 7:15 on a Monday morning in May at Linn-Benton Community College in northwestern Oregon. Math professor Michael Lopez, a tape measure on his belt, paces in front of the 14 students ...

If you can’t simplify the following operation, chances are the state won’t let you graduate from community college: Algebra problems like this one are at the heart of a dispute over the level of math ...

Diego Fonseca is a computer science major who hoped to get into calculus in college but, like many college students today, he is still struggling with basic math. He has major hurdles with algebra, a ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Math is generally a required subject for students in the United States until college. You might elect ...

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