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Across the country, tens of thousands of students in community college are required to take remedial or developmental mathematics courses as prerequisites for their for-credit courses. These courses can be time-consuming and expensive and can act as barriers to...
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is investing more than 1 billion dollars over the next four years to “help improve mathematics and outcomes” in U.S. K-12 education. This is the largest investment that the Gates Foundation has made toward mathematics education...
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Most governments across the globe have closed schools and colleges to contain the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak affecting over 1.5 billion students in 165 countries, per UNESCO. The US was no different with the majority of schools closed for coronavirus...
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Students who struggle with high school algebra are often placed into remedial math courses, which cost them both time and money. Several national studies have confirmed that students placed into college-level math classes have significantly higher graduation...
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Math is a challenge for many students, and Algebra is often the subject they struggle with the most. Algebra I is among the courses with the highest failure rates in high school, while College Algebra is viewed as a gateway course in higher education. Students that...
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Schools across the US are under increasing pressure to decrease high school dropout rates and to increase high school graduation rates. There is a large percentage of high school graduates taking developmental math, which reduces the chances of them completing...
