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[quote=Anonymous][quote] 1 in 8 incoming freshman have math skills that fall below an 8th-grade level.
In 2016, UCSD designed a course (Math 2) designed to teach Grade 9-11 math before those students could go on to other remedial math courses. By 2024 the demand for this course had exploded so much that they split it into two courses: Math 2 would now teach Grades 1-8 math, and a new course, Math 3B, would be the same as the old Math 2.
Students were placed into these courses based on test results. In 2020, 36 were placed in Math 2. In 2024, over 900 were placed into either Math 2 or Math 3B.
In 2024, of the students in Math 2 (remember, for students below an 8th-grade level), a significant number (20%) had already taken calculus in high school, and a similar number (25%) scored a 4.0 average in their high school math courses. The upshot of this is that there’s very little way to tell just how behind someone will be based on their high school performance.
Obviously, the students who pass through these super-remedial math courses have much higher fail/withdraw rates once they finally make it to their normal calculus sequence.[/quote][/quote]

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