BENTONVILLE — The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board on Friday approved an amended freshman assessment and placement policy that allows public higher-education institutions to replace ...

Math is a notorious stumbling block that trips up students seeking college degrees. Every year, tens of thousands of young people fail to graduate because they can’t earn enough math credits. To help ...

A San Diego area community college that moved early to eliminate remedial math courses is drawing lots of attention across the state for success in teaching math. Not only are students at Cuyamaca ...

Math. For generations, the word itself has instilled fear in the hearts and minds of students of all ages. Math is a critical skill for so many of the best jobs available today and into the future. It ...

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.

High school students planning to apply to the University of California now have a broader set of courses they can take to meet the math requirement for admission to the public university system. As ...

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This story was produced in partnership with Open Campus, a nonprofit news organization that partners with local newsrooms to deliver expert coverage of higher education. Alyssa Pfeifer always ...

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 ...

More than a decade ago, Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon, took a look at its data for students enrolled in career and technical education programs. What they found was that many ...

If you are a new engineering first-year student starting in the fall semester, you will most likely be pre-enrolled in an Applied Math (APPM) pre-calculus or calculus course based on patterns of prior ...