College-level math may seem daunting, ... Remember to practice the basics. ... "Make sure you're really solid on the basics coming out of middle school and earlier algebra courses," she says.

Paul Medina struggled with remedial math in community college, but ultimately passed a college-level course with intense help from a tutor. Despite a state law that requires community colleges to ...

Students who score 258 to 265 place up into the Corequisite Level Math, which will allow them to take Math 1111 College Algebra with a support class if algebra is needed for their major. If a student ...

Alas, placement tests show that in a typical fall semester, nearly half of entering physical science and engineering students have not developed algebra skills appropriate to college-level calculus.

Michigan State University has revised its general-education math requirement so that algebra is no longer required of all students. The revision reflects an increasing view on college campuses that ...

Diego Fonseca, a 19-year-old student at George Mason, is among 100 students who joined the math camp because he struggled to understand algebra, a subject he only studied during remote learning.

Algebra is one of the biggest hurdles to getting a high school or college degree — particularly for students of color and first-generation undergrads. It is also the single most failed course in ...

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.

The City University of New York System recently conducted a study comparing how students performed in traditional remedial mathematics, which is elementary algebra, versus college-level, ...

The culprit is Intermediate Algebra, a high-school level course of technical procedures that most college students will never use, either in college or in life. Many students pass a course on this ...

I wasn’t the only one with this problem; 80 percent of my fellow incoming students also place into below-college-level math, according PCC’s research office. Four and half years later, I still haven’t ...