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There’s math to the Madness. With college basketball’s wildly popular March Madness tournament starting next week, a North Carolina-based stats whiz is urging fans to crunch their numbers ...
Algebra problems like this one are at the heart of a dispute over the level of math deemed necessary to earn an associate degree or transfer to a four-year college.
Colleges created remedial education classes to ensure students were sufficiently prepared for more advanced material. But increasingly, there’s a sense that remedial courses are hurting the ...
To help students across that bumpy terrain, math educators have been trying new approaches that are designed to capture high school skills and college-level content on a compressed timeline.
Math 106 has no prerequisites and fulfills the math proficiency requirement. Math 108: Brief Calculus with Applications This course is an introduction to the calculus of polynomial, rational, ...
MOUNT VERNON — Standing inside a room with mathematical equations scrawled on a dry-erase board behind them, Skagit Valley College math instructors Abel Gage and Brian Heinze said they believe ...