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Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...

Is this a picture of something bad, or something good? Cognitive scientists call this the global-local processing dilemma: Do we perceive the overall image, or focus on the details? Education policy ...

Diego Fonseca looked at the computer and took a breath. It was his final attempt at the math placement test for his first year of college. His first three tries put him in pre-calculus, a blow for a ...

<p><br><P> Many students who enroll at the College of Southern Maryland after graduating from high school are not prepared to take a math class.<P> So before they can begin college math work that will ...

Method to her math class: Celeste Petersen (middle), a professor at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon, says that underprepared students who take her “corequisite” companion courses instead ...

Anastasha Kathireson listens to Dean of Students Rosalia Burson lead their team in an exercise on day one of a two-day Jumpstart orientation program for incoming 9th graders at Mount Tahoma High ...

For as long as I can remember, math has been challenging for me. I always dreaded going to math class, so the thought of a college math class seemed terrifying to me. This semester I was required to ...

Math was the biggest problem for area high school students once they got to college. Fifteen of 25 students from Wright City High School had to take remedial math classes. Orchard Farm High School, ...