Opinion: Why Students Reach College Underprepared for Math — And What to Do About It

In recent years, particularly since the pandemic, countless news articles have bemoaned a crisis in math learning. Whether ...
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College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science

"We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics." The post College ...

UC professors say they’re teaching middle school math after SAT ban

University of California professors warn of declining college math skills, linking it to test-optional admissions and ...

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants

Hundreds of University of California professors are urging the system to reinstate the SAT or ACT requirement for STEM majors ...
WESA

College students are still struggling with basic math. Professors blame the pandemic

A student uses his phone to copy the whiteboard at the end of a summer math boot camp session on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. Diego Fonseca looked at the computer ...
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University professors beg for return of standardized tests as students can’t do basic math

Hundreds of University of California (UC) faculty signed an open letter Tuesday demanding a return to mandatory mathematical ...
Education Week

Do Future Teachers Have Math Anxiety? Their University Instructors Think So

Each time Xiuwen Wu greets a new class of preservice teachers studying math education at National Louis University in Wheeling, Ill., she asks them to take a survey. It asks about the future teachers’ ...
U.S. News & World Report

What Can You Do With a Math Degree?

An understanding of how to work with numbers is valuable in fields ranging from government to business to the tech sector, and that is one reason why a math degree is a marketable credential. Workers ...