UNR: Math a big reason students drop out
By Siobhan McAndrew, Reno Gazette-Journal
The single biggest stumbling block for students in college is math, according to UNR Provost Kevin Carman.
He said Nevada’s struggle to graduate students from high school prepared for college is part of the problem, but it isn’t the whole equation.
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In the longer article, Kevin Carman comments, “A lot of it has to do with the style, pace and intensity of the college class.”
Perhaps these classes (say, beginning calculus) could be offered two ways — one or two semesters. The units earned (3 for example), could stay the same. If a student were able to truly master one of the longer classes, then he or she would have the skills to try the next class in the traditional one semester.
Higher math should be introduced to girls at age 12 and boys at age 16. A traditional cirriculum doesn’t offer ‘higher’ math to girls when they are ready because the boys are not ready yet.