USA Today

Math is tripping up community college students. Some schools are trying something new

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 ...
EdSource

Two community colleges show how students can succeed without remedial math courses

EdSource · California teachers on the picket line amid shrinking school budgets A San Diego area community college that moved early to eliminate remedial math courses is drawing lots of attention ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Community colleges neglect those who struggle with math. We are professors who know what’s missing.

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 ...
OPB

Math ends the education journeys of thousands of community college students. An Oregon college is among those trying something new

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 ...
Seattle Times

Community-college students learn math by using it

The grinding sound of metal on metal filtered through the walls of Chris Lindberg’s math class at Shoreline Community College, but his students had no trouble tuning out the noise. “We’ve got a ...
OPB

As students struggle with math, some Oregon community colleges are trying a new approach

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 ...
EdSource

As California community colleges gear up to teach less remedial math, one college shows how it can be done

Allessandra Reyes by her own admission “was really bad at math” in high school. The now 18-year-old freshman at College of the Canyons, a community college in Santa Clarita, failed Algebra II in 10th ...
KQED

Belonging and Believing: Transforming Remedial Math at Community Colleges

Developmental or remedial education forms a core service of community colleges, with a staggering 68% of all community college students taking at least one remedial course, most commonly English or ...
The Hechinger Report

For community-college students who struggle with arithmetic, some solutions

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. For many students ...
The Business Journals

Oregon community colleges helps math add up for students with new teaching approach

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Two years ago, Jennifer Hughes was 45 and supporting four ...
Yahoo

'Math is for everyone': FSU to host Math Fun Day for the community

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida State University’s Department of Mathematics is giving the community an opportunity to engage in the wonders of the formal ...