Carnegie works on new approaches for teaching math in community colleges
Goal is a curriculum that will better fit student needs and build students’ confidence.August 02, 2011
TROY, Mich. – Community colleges typically have open access and admissions. However, more than half of all incoming community college students need to enroll in at least one remedial class to bring their skills up to a college level. Most of those students end up in remedial, or “developmental ,” math.
Many never finish. They run out of patience. They run out of money. They run into a wall of frustration and succumb to the nagging