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Download full textCopus, Colleen; McKinney, Betsy – Journal of Developmental Education, 2016
Anecdotal observations reveal that most students with strong arithmetic skills will succeed in the Beginning Algebra course even if they have no previous experience with algebra. In trying to quantify this with an initial teacher-created survey of arithmetic skills, it was observed, for three consecutive semesters, that students who scored in the…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills
Guy, G. Michael; Cornick, Jonathan; Holt, Robert J.; Russell, Andrew S. H. – Journal of Developmental Education, 2015
After many years of extremely low success rates, a radical new design of the first semester arithmetic remedial course was implemented and studied. Students at a large urban community college could take a traditional semester-long traditional lecture-based remedial arithmetic course or a new accelerated 4-week 20-hour problem-solving based…
Descriptors: Remedial Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs, Arithmetic, Problem Solving
