The Towson University undergrads stared at the quadratic formula projected onto the board. It seemed to be taunting them. x = [-b ± √(b² – 4ac)] / 2a Their instructor, Cristina Packard, had already ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Cecilia Lopez Alvarado was scrolling through Reddit one evening in her dorm room when she came ...

👉 Learn how to evaluate trigonometric functions using trigonometric identities. Trigonometric identities are equalities that involve trigonometric functions. We will focus on the cofunction ...

Description: 👉 Learn how to evaluate an expression with the composition of a function and a function inverse. Just like every other mathematical operation, when given a composition of a trigonometric ...

W hen California lawmakers voted in 2017 to all but eliminate remedial math across the state’s community colleges, Nicholas Lujan was the kind of student they hoped to save. After three years of ...

Analog Academics: As students increasingly struggle with college algebra requirements, many are sent to “remedial” math classes to catch up. Here, a remedial math student's notebook at Baltimore City ...

More than 25% of the UC San Diego students placed in the school's lowest remedial math class had gotten a 4.0 grade average in high school math. One in eight freshmen at UC San Diego place below ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

A new report from the University of California, San Diego has ignited a viral conversation on social media, because it demonstrates the alarming lack of preparation among incoming freshmen for college ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...

Math is not political. The numbers add up, or they don’t. For Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia, who was elected in 2022 as an avowed leftist endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of ...