A top-rated public university says many of its students can’t round numbers or add fractions.

The number of Gen Z college freshmen who are entering universities without high school math skills is skyrocketing — as SAT ...

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.

A university report found a sharp rise in first-year students lacking high school math proficiency. At UCSD, where more than ...

High school graduation requirements for Kansas students soon may be changing, and the Kansas Board of Regents this week weighed in with a couple of suggestions: More math and more paperwork. But those ...

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 ...

Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...

Taking remedial courses can feel like a waste of money and time for any student who is interested in the cheapest and fastest path to a degree. But students who don't do well on placement exams may be ...

Kuniyuki is a full-time tenured math professor and assistant chair of the mathematics department at San Diego Mesa College. He lives in San Diego. Foster is an adjunct math professor with over 40 ...

It should come as no surprise to anyone that to succeed in a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) field, one needs a solid foundation in mathematics. When my sons entered college, even ...