> The next civil rights court battle for California higher education may be about algebra.
> California State University is finalizing new system-wide math policies as part of an initiative to increase graduation rates and address equity gaps. But a recent move by CSU affecting students transferring from community colleges threatens to undermine community college efforts to do the same.
> About 80 percent of African Americans required to take more than one remedial class in math do not complete their math requirements within six years, compared to 67 percent of Hispanics and 61 percent of whites, according to the community college system’s student success scorecard. A recent estimate found that, among community college students, 50-60 percent of the racial disparity in degree completion is driven by decisions to place students in math remediation, according to an unpublished study by the RP Group.
> What these educators don’t appear to realize is that the same policies track many capable students – especially students of color attending community colleges – away from completing a college degree at all.
> Why is this a civil rights legal problem for state higher education, rather than just a policy problem for social justice and prosperity? It is because, outside of specific majors such as engineering, intermediate algebra skills are not required for success in college. In fact, popular college math courses like Statistics do not require intermediate algebra. Studies show that the very same students, whose futures are threatened by algebra policies, can pass a rigorous college-level statistics course without knowing intermediate algebra. Statistics satisfies the math requirement for transfer from community colleges to CSU and UC, as well as for a baccalaureate degree.
the two kids at my school who were in the highest level math classes were both white middle class w nerd ass looking parents and they both went to mediocre average universities like the unimpressive privileged trained dogs they are.
Adam Russell
>About 80 percent of African Americans required to take more than one remedial class in math do not complete their math requirements within six years, compared to 67 percent of Hispanics and 61 percent of whites, according to the community college system’s student success scorecard So is it saying 61% of White college students couldn't pass gen ed math class within 6 years? Is there no middle/high school in California or what?
Nathaniel Wilson
The only College algebra class you technically have to pass at my school is Math 111, which is precalc and trig, pretty much high school math.
Christian Allen
>Caption says algebra >Whiteboard has multi-variable calculus on it
California schools are focused on teaching you different ways to suck cock and fight your white privilege.
Nathaniel Russell
Which is perfect for them so they can claim their public schools have higher scores and so they can justify more funding to bloated ineffective teacher's unions.
Isaac Nelson
Kek indeed.
Carter Cooper
>80% niggers, 67% spics and 61% normal people can't finish a basic algebra course in America
Why are Americlaps so fucking stupid?
Nicholas Rodriguez
algebra is a selfsolving problem, just follow the mathematical patterns and solution already achieved by others and u can just follow asystem to solve any algebra problem.
Trying to solve them in your head and reinvent the wheel is just a test of practice and patience that solves nothing
Jose Robinson
As someone that goes to a UC, I can confirm this.
Connor Jenkins
Multivariable calculus is still part of algebra senpai
>Implying shitters that can't pass algebra have the mental capacity to realize that.
Andrew Nguyen
As a 65% nigger, i can tell you all that algebra isn't even hard at all once you start practicing more and more. Sure it looks challenging at a first glance, but you'll get the hang of it once you get it all down. I was supposed to go back to college this month but i can't because the school i was going to had a tuition of $50,000 so i can't really afford a second year there. Next week, i'll start at a community college and get a job so i can stop being a NEET. I also have my MTA (Microsoft Technology Associates) Certificate so i can get any entry level IT job while i'm going to school.
Cooper Gonzalez
racemixing
Jace Perry
the article is correct. black people on average have a lower IQ which is not their fault. therefore races with lower iqs should be exempt from these courses but not face consequences and be able to graduate equally
Jacob Harris
>higher education >remedial algebra
There's your first problem. I thought this was going to be about abstract algebra, but it's basic algebra. Which no respectable university has any business teaching.
US education is a fucking joke.
Colton Nelson
61% of whites required to take more than one remedial class in math do not complete their math requirements in six years, not 61% of whites in general.
Nathaniel Brooks
Indeed, failure seems to be rewarded more often now.
Wasn't it recently that Black women were recognized for their mathematical skills in the NASA programs?
I think it's all a matter of effort.
Music - same thing; little to no effort, and dat's da way dey like it.
But bebop jazz ...
Hmmm.
Laziness.
Jaxson Gomez
>Indeed, failure seems to be rewarded more often now. It's communism.
Why aren’t they teaching algebra in high school? We took that shit in the 10th grade. Even the stupid kids got to it by 12th grade. Are students graduating high school by mastering the times tables now? 80% of nigs failing is not that surprising, but 61% of whites? Something is wrong along the entire system. Of course their solution will likely be nixing algebra as a graduation requirement for certain majors, and to be fair you don’t need to understand algebra or higher math to be successful in most majors. However, if you can’t pass a basic math class in 6 years you might be too dumb to graduate.
Landon Wood
Didn't Persians invent it or something? Niggers shouldn't be so racist and Islamophobic
Tyler Williams
I met some jewish kid who couldn't pass Math 110 at my old college. It was kinda funny desu.
Angel Mitchell
>be employer >*looks at university transcript* >no algebra or higher math >into the trash it goes
You lack basic reading comprehension skills. These figures consist of students who required more than one remedial math class - not the entire population.
Michael Nguyen
>capable students >can't pass tests Pick one, niggers.
Aaron Harris
>implying employers nowadays check which classes they've taken in college when hiring If you have a degree they don't give a shit any further. They will only care about your job (((experiences))) and former (((employers)))' comments
i havent been in college in awhile but that sure looks like calculus.
Elijah Young
I took several math classes in California public school and it wasn't even that challenging for me. The problem is that most of my class didn't get anything that happened and they just gave up. I thought it was because of common core nonsense but it might be because of how fucking lazy and stupid they were. There's nothing wrong with not having a capacity for doing math easily, but sometimes the retards didn't even try to pass.
Joseph Hall
Thats calculus on the board you dolt
Jace Mitchell
I call extreme BS on your reply. Calculus is an entirely different matter than basic algebra. Algebra is still used in calculus, but adds a lot of new stuff - rates of change - that goes well beyond basic algebra.
Are you saying that trigonometry, phasor math, fourier analysis are just re-hashed algebra, too?
I would disagree wholeheartedly, user.
Hudson Miller
math in California schools is as inept as reading comprehension is at where ever the fuck you got taught how to read.
Jacob Hall
maybe niggers should carry out their birthrite and work their way out of their stupidity.
The most common definition of an integral, the Riemann sum, is literally an algebraic operation
Andrew Williams
The reality of 'Equality - to a liberal' should have the two taller ones standing in proportionally deep holes while the shot one stands on the ground.
Wyatt Parker
It’s the picture from the article and it is clearly being used to make algebra seem way more complicated and confusing than it really is.
John Bell
Thefuck, algebra is the easiest way to learn shit >had a hard issue with university-test level geometry formulae because couldn't understand the graphical ways of getting those. >mfw learning vectors in university make them all simple af to understand and deduce algebraically rather than tracing lines upon lines on a triangle (or whatever other geometrical shape)
WTF they made us take algebra to graduate highschool. Also the highschool I went to is in the top 10 for most drop outs
Lucas Cooper
The problems and examples werent in shekels.
Connor Reed
No shit... I took algebra in the 8th grade...
Charles Green
American colleges are the fucking toughest on the planet (but that's why we turn out the best graduates). In order for me to even get an electrical engineering degree we had to take rigorous courses like Trigonometry and linear algebra.
Thank god I didn't have to take any advanced algebra courses otherwise I would've never gotten a degree.
Camden Wood
you talking about that abstract shit, nigger? Like Galois?
Jonathan Allen
>California State University
If you can't do calculus/algebra, you don't belong in any uni course
Noah Davis
>rigorous courses >Trig and linear algebra are your examples user..I..
Benjamin Campbell
A low quality bait, but you made me laugh
Andrew Stewart
Nah dude there was a class that I knew all the material but for some reason I couldn't pass exams.
I would teach the guy I studied with and he would pull like 60s and I'd get like 40s just because I'd make silly mistakes.
Made a deal with the teacher so I could explain my knowledge after I scribbled a bunch of shit down on the test and even then I was catching mistakes after the fact
True, but calculus in general is pretty worthless for most of the people that take it. I use algebra all the damn time for normal shit.
Charles Bennett
They need to grow a spine and start turning people away for not being able to do junior high level algebra. Or make a separate secondary education institution that is less mathematically inclined instead of lumping them with people who can do the math.
Oliver Rodriguez
I fully support this. Algebra is useless for most students unless they plan on taking STEM courses. What's worse is the methods for teaching algebra are atrocious, because it's dumbed down so that students don't have to understand what they're doing, they just have to follow mindless rote procedures to spit out the answer. This approach is designed to help brainlets pass algebra tests without understanding algebra. Keep niggers out of math class and everyone wins.
Liam Green
>American colleges are the fucking toughest on the planet
only somebody with a background from american education would seriously believe this. i’ve lived and studied in both places and the Spanish education is 100x better than the American, in both STEM and humanities. american college students i speak to are borderline retarded, even the ones from harvard and yale. the classes in the US are a joke. the profs try to make them arbitrarily hard. it’s pretty funny how seriously people take themselves other there. the profs, most of whom are retards who know nothing, think they’re such hot shit. LMAO
Ryder Evans
I was the same way. I sucked at taking tests until eventually I conformed and was in the top 5% of all of my classes.
Jayden Morris
dont people learn algebra in middle school? also >admitting blacks are intellectually inferior
Dylan Campbell
Uni should only be for people in the very top of intelligence, no matter the degree. The rest can do trade and factory/services.
They're making society too top heavy with everyone having a degree and feeling like they're intelligent and entitled to big pay for doing little.
Luke Foster
(You)
Joshua Young
Bait
Zachary Morales
I've met some really stupid MechE's and EE's, some that thought law of cosines and stress/strain relationships were hard concepts. I did get baited I'll admit that.
Wyatt Ramirez
Those are percentages of retards who didn't learn it in high school for some reason.
Adam Parker
>pic chosen by editor You've probably already noticed that whenever an article is about "coding", it's always some stockphoto shit showing Javascript.
That's journalism. Journalist have no skills in any particular field, but they larp as experts in everything.
Bentley Nelson
They just pass people for more funding. The students don't actually learn the material.
Isaac Taylor
Is algebra usually advanced at other schools? Most introductory courses (algebra, trig, chem, physics, etc.) just teach high school level material at a faster pace.
this is a very shitty way to write down integrals and just horrible notation and sequence in general
Evan Sanchez
>the classes in the US are a joke. This didn't used to be the case. U.S. higher education has a strong reputation because its reputation hasn't caught up with current reality. Before the push to get every student into college, U.S. higher education was the envy of the world. I went to a top public ivy, and the students today are borderline retarded. They couldn't even write a coherent sentence, much less a decent paper.
Sebastian Howard
He wasn't Jewish.
Cameron Rodriguez
Can’t be possible, lazy Spaniards Shit economy since 1800
Ryan Bailey
There is a limit involved though, so NPC still have a hard time understanding it.
Gavin Anderson
Riemann wasn't Jewish. No Jewish mathematicians hold a candel to Gauss, Newton, Euler, Riemann, and our other great white mathematicians.
David Martinez
Good on you dude, studying for my A+ certs right now to just circumvent school in general. How hard was your Microsoft certification?
Cameron Russell
I had to take college algebra all the way up to linear algebra in a California community college. After trig I didn’t see any black people in any of my classes except calc 2 which had one guy from Africa who was actually pretty good at math. Other than that I only saw black and Latino people struggle with math in the lower level classes. After calc 1 it was practically nothing but white, Asian, and middle eastern people in all my classes and 99% of them wanted to be engineers.
Zachary Flores
>headline says algebra >pic shows calculus
Caleb Gutierrez
What the fuck is algebra anyways? What the hell makes it so hard for these people?
Quadratic equations? Solving for zero and plotting? What else am I missing?
I'm not a genius by any means but that was fucking common sense in just about every fucking class I took in college and you would literally get nowhere in EE if you didn't know how to algebra.
Easton Foster
Is it possible that they just forgot?
Andrew Wood
You apply algebra to calculus what the fuck are you talking about? Calculus is just theorems and definitions and you use algebra/trigonometry to execute/prove them you fucking mongoloid.
Asher Morgan
Yes but not really, at least in my experience. The teachers will tell you to do certain things in specific orders so you can pass a test but it's all so forgettable because they don't tell you why you're doing what you're doing and nobody comes away with any understanding.
Parker Long
checked. this is one of the main reasons that journalists are destroying society.
Eli Young
LOL You are a luteral retard if you believe this
>American 'colleges' are the toughest on the planet
That's a literal joke.
I have a Doc and two MS'es from Ivy Schools in the US, and have attended UNIVERSITY in Europe and Asia. I teach in the UK now at a very prestigious "college" (learn the difference).
American Unis are a literal JOKE. They've had to let niggers and what-not in, and your average, say, Gymnasium grad from Germany is comparable to a BS/BA- tier American State School- surpassing it actually by far.
LOL nice b8 mate. No one is gonna buy that. Everyone knows it is bullshit. 4 year degrees from American schools are junior-high and high-school tier in Europe and China/Japan
Ryan Lopez
well, niggers are stupid and can't think in the abstract. What's new?
Jacob Adams
>That's journalism. Journalist have no skills in any particular field, but they larp as experts in everything. Journalism is a highly nepotistic field in America. It is the option for blue bloods who didn't want to attend law, medical, or business school.
Carson Murphy
That's because they're not allowed into the Ivies because they aren't niggers or kikes, dumbshit
Jeremiah Adams
I know adults who don't know what 1000 is. They could never dream of calculating a percentage, with or without a calculator, and they sure as hell could never factor a polynomial. These people aren't obviously retarded, and seem perfectly normal when you talk to them. The older I get, the more I learn to never be surprised just how dumb people are.
Kayden Watson
It’s not useless. Taking high levels of math helps you build better problem solving skills, critical thinking skills, quantitative/analytical skills, etc.. Math makes you a quicker and more effective thinker. If you can’t pass a basic algebra class then you’re a fucking retard, I’m sorry.
Luke Perez
Niggers come into class 20 minutes late smelling like weed and sit on their phones for the entire class, then the bitch about racism when they fail the tests?
Benjamin King
>spaintard >can't even into enrish >good education fuck off spicmoor
Ayden Williams
So is the definition of a derivative.
Riemann is a summation iirc. You're thinking definition of a derivative. Literally throw in zero. If you can't, manipulate the shit by putting x+1 on top and bottom
Isaac Watson
Generally true, but not at top schools like University of Chicago. Harvard and Yale are jokes. They are just about making future business/political connections.
Parker Cox
of all the maths i had to take - algebra 2 was the most enjoyable.
Tyler Harris
>posting from the US
Nice larp you fucking faggot. If you actually have a PhD or masters from an Ivy League you’d be busy doing paid research rather than shitposting on Jow Forums.
Logan Perry
>top public ivy
the fact that you even used this bullshit scam promotional phrase demonstrates to me that you aren’t as smart as you think you are
