In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...

The University System of Maryland has come up with a way to help liberal arts students who struggle with algebra. Encourage them to take statistics instead. University system administrators are using ...

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Half of students fail college algebra. Reformers say outdated college math requirements are gatekeeping graduation.

To balance that, Hacker argues that we do need a solid ability to reason is systemic and/or quantitative ways, and he seems to think statistics is a better way to do that, or possibly in some parts of ...

In his new book The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions, political scientist Andrew Hacker proposes replacing algebra II and calculus in the high school and college curriculum with a practical course ...

Nearly 85 percent of Georgia teachers participating in a recent survey said they would rather use the traditional algebra-geometry-algebra 2 pathway for high school math than the integrated model the ...

A growing number of states have begun to require community colleges to allow more students with academic deficiencies to skip remediation and enroll directly in college-level courses. New research ...

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics offers a 2-year M.A. program with a traditional core of Real Analysis and Abstract Algebra courses together with a range of electives in mathematics and ...