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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 122 min read
STEM students will face sink-or-swim calculus in California
California community colleges will require unprepared STEM majors to be placed in calculus.
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 28, 20231 min read
Darning socks, shorthand, algebra
Selective colleges should stop expecting top students to take calculus, argues Scott White in Forbes. I was with him that far. My...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 20, 20222 min read
They passed calculus, but can't add fractions
Alex Small, who teaches physics at Cal Poly Pomona, keeps seeing students who passed calculus in high school, but aren't prepared for...
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