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The story is a familiar one: A high-school dropout and single mother works the supermarket late shift. Motivated to earn a four-year degree so she can have a better life for herself and her 4-year-old daughter, she enrolls in a community college after earning a GED. Three years later, she still hasnt completed the sequence of three remedial math courses required before she can take college-level math. Defeated, she says, "I just couldnt do it anymore." For this student and too many others, the dream stops here.
The Reality
60% of community college students who take the placement exam place into remedial education classes. This could be as high as 90% for low-income and minority students at some community colleges. The number of students moving from remedial education classes to college-level courses can drop as low as 15%.
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Course relevance
I feel that if one person put in the work to really understand the concepts they can pass. I was never a "math person" but coming into Statway has completely made a 360 degree turn about how i feel about math. It is great!
A growth mindset
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Proportional Reasoning
Comparing relationships such as difference vs. relative difference; working with percentages and proportions
Algebraic Reasoning
Using variables to represent unknown Representing real world relationships with expressions, equations, inequalities, graphs and tables
Functions
Modeling situations with linear, quadratic and exponential functions, inequalities and equations Describe functions verbally, graphically, algebraically and with a table of values
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