College kids’ math skills worse than ever, California finds — blame our pass-the-buck public schools

America has plenty of talented people — but a UC San Diego study finds our schools are failing to educate them. And everyone ...
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High GPAs And Test Optional Mask Poor Math Skills At College

Key Points ・UC San Diego’s own faculty report shows a thirtyfold jump since 2020 in freshmen arriving with math skills below the middle-school level, raising concerns about admissions practices and ...
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A 5-Stage Strategy Students Can Use to Tackle Word Problems

Students aren’t necessarily missing the math, they’re missing how to make sense of the problem itself. Once we see ...
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Ask the Professor: Why do we use a sideways 8 to represent infinity?

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.

UC San Diego report finds alarming drop in freshmen math skills, with one in eight below middle school level

Shocking UC San Diego study reveals one in eight college freshmen lack basic math skills, with remedial course enrollment ...