More than 900 students at UC San Diego needed catch-up math classes in the fall of 2025 compared to 32 five years earlier.

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 ...

What is clear to us is that our students are college students. They are here because they want a higher education. We have decided to turn the mirror around and look at our practices rather than focus ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alyssa Wallace, a senior at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, was among the 29 high school students who took an unusual math class last summer; the course, taught at Cal State Long Beach, will allow ...

One evening in late 2022, Adam Latif, a high school student in Tampa, sat down at his computer to see if he had been accepted by Harvard University. He had toured the school’s grounds with his parents ...

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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Discover patterns and universal truths. Apply logic and problem-solving to real-world problems with a mathematics degree. Scholar athlete Tommy Kawamura BA '14 turned his love of baseball into a ...