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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story was updated on Aug. 2, 2017. A new policy from the California State University system will soon allow some students to take math classes with pre-requisites other than intermediate algebra ...

The first math course a student takes depends on his or her background. In most cases, it will be MATH 105 (Calculus I), 106 (Calculus II), 205 (Linear Algebra), or 206 (Multivariable Calculus). Here ...

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 ...

Students focus on engineering problem solving. They learn the design process, with an emphasis on graphics and documentation. A student’s mathematics placement is determined by the Department of ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s ...

A survey of contemporary topics in mathematics such as: voting systems and power, apportionment, fair division of divisible and indivisible assets, efficient distribution, scheduling and routing, ...

Discover patterns and universal truths. Apply logic and problem-solving to real-world problems with a mathematics degree. Scholar athlete Tommy Kawamura BA '14 turned his love of baseball into a ...

The Mathematics department offers two undergraduate degree programs leading to the Bachelor of Arts and to the Bachelor of Science degrees. The Bachelor of Arts program in Mathematics is designed to ...