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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Community college student Catalina Daneshfar had always disliked math and she wasn’t earning the grades to fulfill her algebra requirement to transfer to a four-year university. At Pierce College, she ...

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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 Roosevelt International Middle School student takes a math enrichment class by computer at home in 2020. (Photo courtesy of San Diego Unified School District) This story first appeared at The 74, a ...