is posted a paper which says that the reforms proposed in chemistry and
physics education, though they are very good ideas, will have little impact
on the high failure rates in introductory science courses -- because K-12
math standards in most states are producing only minimal numbers of
students who know the math needed to solve scientific calculations.
In quantitative science courses, should we pass students seeking to be
medical personnel if they cannot do dosage calculations -- or who seek to
be engineers and build bridges who cannot add vectors?
To get sufficient numbers of students through STEM majors, will college
science departments need to start teaching arithmetic, fractions, and
algebra?
Additional graphs are in the “illustrated” guide which can be accessed at
www.ChemReview.Net/blog , post 13.