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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With the current standards in the state of MD, [b]many kids who go to college need to take remedial math[/b], so the standards they were exposed to didn't even prepare them for community college.

The Common Core standards for high school seem to be pretty basic -- algebra, statistics, geometry.

http://www.corestandards.org/Math

There's no trig, precal, calculus.   I assume advanced students with a serious interest in STEM would be accelerated at some point to study precalculus and perhaps calculus before graduation, by taking AP classes.   But there's no need for the majority of students to take those classes in high school -- not even for a career in business of finance.   If they need the coursework they can take it in college.[/quote]

I don't know about that... I graduated from BCC a little over 10 years ago having taken IB calc, and tested into Calc III for college.  Obviously not all kids are taking IB, but I think all MoCo high schools offer AP, some AP and IB.  While some kids may need it, I wouldn't expect that "many" kids need remedial classes to get through college, even with these curriculum changes.[/quote]

If you take calculus in high school, odds are good you will not need to take remedial math in college.

However, many MD high school graduates DO enter college needing to take basic math remediation.  I.e. they are not "college ready" for math despite having a high school diploma.

"This trend has been reported in Maryland where nearly one-third of even the best-prepared high school graduates require mathematics remediation in college. Worse, the problem seems to be increasing: The need for remedial mathematics among Maryland students who take a college-preparatory curriculum in high school and attend Maryland colleges has increased from 23 percent in 1997 to 32 percent in 2007.2 These rates vary across districts and student subgroups, and for some subgroups of students, the most recently reported remediation rate is as high as 69 percent."

http://www.math.jhu.edu/~wsw/ED/Abell0904.pdf[/quote]

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