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  • Math disaster in college: Would-be STEM majors can't add 1/2 + 1/3

    10/07/2023 3:40:59 AM PDT · by george76 · 161 replies
    Joanne Jacobs ^ | Sep 6, 2023 | Joanne Jacobs
    After a year of remote algebra, Diego Fonseca struggled with advanced algebra. Despite a week at George Mason University's Math Boot Camp, the would-be computer science major failed the math placement test to qualify for calculus four times. He didn't know the basics. Across the country, more students are placing into pre-college math, reports AP's Collin Binkley. "At many universities, engineering and biology majors are struggling to grasp fractions and exponents." At George Mason in Northern Virginia, fewer would-be STEM majors are getting into calculus and more are failing, he writes. “We’re talking about college-level pre-calculus and calculus classes, and...