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Posted on 12/13/2022 3:57:49 AM PST by DFG
The Kansas Board of Regents is considering stripping specific university math requirements after it was found that a significant percentage of college freshmen fail algebra, NPR affiliate KCUR reported.
The Regents, who oversee the system’s six public universities, are considering implementing the Math Pathways approach which matches students to a math course based on their major instead of mandating algebra for all incoming students. While many universities require that all freshmen pass algebra as a prerequisite for graduation, one in three Kansas students reportedly fail the course, which could delay a student’s graduation.
Daniel Archer, vice president of academic affairs for the Kansas Board of Regents, said that algebra is not always necessary for many students. Only 20 percent of majors require higher-level math beyond algebra, KCUR reported.
“We’re sending the majority of students down the college algebra road, which is really not necessary,” Archer said. “It’s not practical. It’s not really needed. And it’s not relevant for their fields.”
he Math Pathways approach offers students the option of taking alternatives to algebra such as statistics and quantitative reasoning, according to its 2018 brief. Its summary claims that algebra is a “gatekeeper to higher education for students not majoring in a math-heavy field.”
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The students aren’t doing the homework. I’ve tutoured folks in algebra. If you work the problems I guarantee you’ll pass
Precisely
You still have to work the problems
That would be simple arithmetic, not algebra.
Algebra and a pocket knife are essential for life.
Precisely
You never needed to apply a ratio?
Yeah, but I bet if you ask these kids to put a condom onto a glitter covered banana using only their mouth, they'd all pass easily.
Define “college algebra” please.
It is probably true that 70+% of young people being ripped off for college degrees they do not need lack the cognitive ability for advanced algebra (trigonometry and further along).
You can either say, “Colleges and Universities - dismiss the 70% of your “students” who do not belong in college and take the revenue cut”, or you can eliminate the requirement.
Since a lot of the college revenue is supporting otherwise unemployable people who have found favor with elected officials who would ALSO be unemployable if they had to find real jobs - algebra’s gotta go.
Students who can’t pass junior high or hgh school algebra shouldn’t be at a university. Unless the “Statistics” course referenced is considerably dumbed down version, how do students who can’t pass algebra manage calculus?
Just let the morons purchase a degree and quit pretending.
Students of the late 1800s wouldn’t know what a microsecond, a coulomb, or a giga-byte happens to be either. Hand them a DVD and they wouldn’t have a clue what it does. I never used a peck or a bushel or a rod in any work I have done. Times change and so does the necessary knowledge base.
I just lost any respect I might ever have had for you. Your entire response to me is utterly false and completely absurd; your entire education appears to be in "jumping to conclusions".
ESAD.
Why just drop the math requirement? If elite college scammers strip the reading requirements too they can get more “students” to sign up for loans to finance four years of sex and play - then renege on their ‘student loans’.
Rather than pay corrupt Universities that can’t teach but can indoctrinate, it makes more sense to give these ‘students’ smaller cheaper loans to so they can live at the beach (in cheap housing dorms) for four years. Maybe some foreign cheap country island...
My son took College Algebra as a dual enrolled student in 10th grade. He said it was easier than the pre algebra he took in 8th grade.
66 years old, Master Plumber for 45 years and can honestly say I have never used Algabra for anything! To me its like learning French, whats the point!!
GFY.
Has your husband told you joke that ends “Assume a spherical horse”?
No. Never. Sounds odd. :(
So? He never took Algebra, so he doesn’t think he uses it, but he does.
If you had an education or understood plumbing at all you would know this.
He is more of an American than you ever will be, and deserves self-governance regardless if he understands what Algebra is, no matter how much you stomp your little feet and demand he be subjugated for his ignorance of Algebra.
“I just lost any respect I might ever have had for you.”
So? You’re not my hero. I don’t like petulant little girls like you. You’re the feminization of this country. You want to be Miss Popular but you never earn it. You only insult and demean others while trying to stand on top of them. Snotty little girls do not deserve respect.
The ultimate goal is to remove merit and capability as determining factors in succeeding in American life. “Studies” majors in college are a good example of this, as are corporate and government jobs focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
I don’t like ignorant, arrogant, unintelligent, conclusion-jumping jackasses like you. You deserve no respect and get none. Seriously: a meth-head rotting his life away under a bridge is more useful to society than the likes of you.
You utterly lack redeeming characteristics.
I know entirely too many PhDs to have reflexive respect for any of them. Take your diploma (if you have one) and your dissertation (if you actually wrote one) and shove them. Both. Simultaneously.
I will not read any worthless vomit you might choose to type in response to this post. Have a lousy day!
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