The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: Professors say high school math doesn’t prepare most students for their college majors

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The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: Many high school math teachers cobble together their own instructional materials from the internet and elsewhere, a survey finds

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Education Week

What Math Learned in School Is Most Important? Adults and Their Managers Don’t Agree

Americans think schools need to teach math skills to prepare students for future success—but they don’t always agree on which skills are the most crucial, and the subject stirs up complicated emotions ...
Los Angeles Times

UC stirs furious debate over what high school math skills are needed to succeed in college

Briana Hampton, a San Gabriel High School junior, is determined to get into a four-year university to achieve her dream of becoming a social worker or psychiatrist. But she feared she would fail a ...
EdSource

Advanced algebra, data science and more: UC rethinks contested issues of high school math

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...
EdSource

High school math placement is too important to leave to subjective recommendations

December 29, 2025 - Betty Reid Soskin was the nation’s oldest national park ranger. She passed away on Dec. 21 at 104 years old. To honor her, we bring you an episode from 2021, about how a California ...
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See how new NC math standards could change the classes high school students take

North Carolina is overhauling its math standards, with major changes potentially coming to the courses students take in high school. The state Department of Public Instruction presented Thursday the ...
KQED

UC Reconsiders Requirements for Data Science Students Amid Ongoing High School Math Debate

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...
Raleigh News & Observer

NC House passes bill changing high school math and social studies requirements

Kenny Felder, a math teacher at Raleigh Charter High School, explains repeating decimals to calculus students in February 2019. Julia Wall News & Observer file photo North Carolina lawmakers could ...
Yahoo

NC bill overhauls high school math graduation requirements. See what could change.

Students listen as Knightdale High School teacher Alex Johnson reviews examples of sequences during a math class on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, in Knightdale, N.C. North Carolina lawmakers could overhaul ...
KQED

Professors Say High School Math Doesn’t Prepare Most Students For Their College Majors

The typical ambitious high school student takes advanced algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus and calculus. None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend ...