Cal State no longer will require all its general education math courses to have a strict intermediate algebra prerequisite — a policy that has long stymied students trying to transfer from community ...

To the editor: Yes, removing remedial English and math from the California State University curriculum may boost graduation rates, but is it really preparing students for the more difficult college ...

How much high school math do you need to get admitted to a Cal State? Turns out the answer to this long-running controversy will wait a little longer. A proposal to tie admission to increased high ...

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Multiplication tables, polynomial equations and logarithms. It’s a safe bet no one gets nostalgic about their early math education. The practice of memorizing and manipulating numbers and symbols with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about higher education leadership, policy and best practices. In 1992, when Teen Talk Barbie told young girls, “Math class ...

A Cal State Fullerton math professor was reprimanded by the university after he used less expensive – and in his view, better – textbooks instead of a $180 text written and mandated by his department ...

No Cal State Fullerton professor in recent memory ever needed a summer vacation more than Alain Bourget. Bourget is the math professor whose refusal to use the required textbook for his Math 250B ...

California high school students may eventually have to forget about taking a year or two away from math classes before college. The Cal State University system — the nation’s biggest public university ...

LONG BEACH – The numbers came in flurries. So did the letters. Kadhir Rajagopal, a 31-year-old math instructor from Northern California and 2011 California Teachers Association teacher of the year, ...