Berkeley calculus students can’t do middle-school math


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Posted by mh on August 17, 2026 at 12:06:18

In Reply to: Just another manic Monday* posted by mh on August 17, 2026 at 10:43:40

I teach mathematics at UC Berkeley. Three days a week, I stand in front of lecture halls with 500 to 1,400 students. By the second week of the semester, I already know who is in trouble.

Some students are five to eight years behind in mathematics. Office hours that should be spent discussing integrals instead become lessons on fractions and basic algebra you would expect students to learn in middle school.



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