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Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...

<p><br><P> Many students who enroll at the College of Southern Maryland after graduating from high school are not prepared to take a math class.<P> So before they can begin college math work that will ...

ALBANY, Ore. – It’s 7:15 on a Monday morning in May at Linn-Benton Community College in northwestern Oregon. Math professor Michael Lopez, a tape measure on his belt, paces in front of the 14 students ...

Is this a picture of something bad, or something good? Cognitive scientists call this the global-local processing dilemma: Do we perceive the overall image, or focus on the details? Education policy ...

Math was the biggest problem for area high school students once they got to college. Fifteen of 25 students from Wright City High School had to take remedial math classes. Orchard Farm High School, ...

Bixby math teacher Elizabeth Shortess has a way with numbers and children, and she might just be part of the solution when it comes to mathphobia."You got it! You got it!" she said to one of her fifth ...