UC-Berkeley math prof says she has to teach fractions to calculus students because standards have fallen so far

A well known University of California-Berkeley mathematics professor has slammed admissions standards at the top-flight ...

When Straight-A Students Aren’t Ready For College Math

Is calculus still the best sign of college readiness? As testing policies evolve, colleges face a bigger question: What does ...

What one Berkeley professor says she now teaches instead of calculus

A UC Berkeley mathematics professor is raising concerns about student preparedness, saying some incoming calculus students ...
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UC freshmen increasingly are not ready for college math. Some professors want to require the SAT again

About a dozen first-year UC Berkeley students gathered one afternoon last fall inside a classroom in Evans Hall, where math professor Zvezdelina Stankova held office hours for one of her calculus ...
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College students can’t do middle-school math after test-blind admissions: UC Berkeley professor

Calculus students at the University of California Berkeley don’t know how to work with elementary-level fractions, one professor wrote in a recent op-ed. “I teach mathematics at UC Berkeley. Three ...
Inside Higher Ed

Rethinking Calculus for Future Engineers

The University of Michigan is redesigning foundational math to connect calculus to real-world engineering—and get students to ...
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University of California Berkeley Math Professor Sounds Alarm on Declining Student Preparedness in Calculus

Zvezdelina Stankova, a teaching professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, has described a sharp ...
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UMass Lowell Students Gain Hands-On Teaching Experience with The Calculus Project

For some students in middle school and high school, studying math in the summer doesn’t sound very appealing. For students in ...