How our campus is supporting students through math

How our campus is supporting students through math

As longtime college math faculty in San Diego County, we were taken aback by the news about first-year students struggling with middle school math at UC San Diego. The idea that students might score poorly on a placement test or get answers wrong in an algebra class was no surprise. That some students, especially those from under-resourced schools, have difficulty with school mathematics is not news to us. As community college instructors, we se…