ALBANY, Ore. – It’s 7:15 on a Monday morning in May at Linn-Benton Community College in northwestern Oregon. Math professor Michael Lopez, a tape measure on his belt, paces in front of the 14 students ...
As more than 30 million American elementary schoolchildren pack their backpacks to head back to school this fall, one subject just might be the most dreaded of all—mathematics. A distaste for ...