UC Berkeley Calculus Professor Claims Some of Her Students Can't Do Middle School Math

UC Berkeley Calculus Professor Claims Some of Her Students Can't Do Middle School Math

"Office hours that should be spent discussing integrals instead become lessons on fractions and basic algebra you would expect students to learn in middle school."

University of California Berkeley Math Professor Sounds Alarm on Declining Student Preparedness in Calculus

BERKELEY, Calif. — Zvezdelina Stankova, a teaching professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, has described a sharp drop in the mathematical readiness of incoming students, saying some arrive years behind grade level and struggle with concepts typically mastered in middle school. In an opinion piece published in the San Francisco Standard, Stankova wrote that office hours...