A failing grade for Md. math - baltimoresun.com

A failing grade for Md. math - baltimoresun.com

...And the problem has been getting worse. The need for remedial math classes among Maryland high school graduates who had taken a college preparatory curriculum and went on to one of the state's two- or four-year colleges rose from 23 percent in 1997 to 32 percent in 2007, according to an Abell Foundation report released this spring.While the problem is worse at community colleges, 15 percent of the freshmen at the University of Maryland, College Park must take a remedial math class before being able to move into college-level classes, said Denny Gullick, a math professor there. Some of those students come from out of state.

For Gabrielle Martino, holder of a doctorate in math from the Johns
Hopkins University and a co-author of the Abell Foundation report, the
bottom line is that students are being harmed because they have to pay for the remedial classes. When they get to college, "they are uniformly shocked that they were put into remedial math," she said...

Lacking the basics
High school students in 2006-2007 who needed remedial math in college

Region - Montgomery
With college prep - 30%
Without college prep - 42%

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