[amiga386]

https://senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347/sawg-report-on-admissio...

Please see the graph "Growth of the Math 2 Population by Major (2019-2024)". UCSD's Math 2 class is remedial high-school level maths. It has grown from under 100 students in 2016-2020, to more and more people each year starting from 2021.

UCSD tested the people who took this class, and 25% of them could not answer the question "Fill in the box: 7 + 2 = [_] + 6" (with only pencil and paper allowed, no calculators or other electronics)

[sourcecodeplz]

Another one with %21 fail: "Sarah had 9 pennies and 9 dimes. How many coins did she have in all?"

[insane_dreamer]

this is a Berkeley CS class, not a remedial math class.

[amiga386]

I'm suggesting the problem is not limited to Berkeley. They both show the same underlying issue, there's a growing number of students attending university without the prerequisite maths skills they need to succeed.

It seems they're now at the point where the sheer number of students that need improved maths skills overwhelms the staff, resulting in them failing.

[insane_dreamer]

I agree it's not limited to Cal.

But my point was that while you might expect remedial math students to fail (they're in remedial math for a reason), you shouldn't be having 1/3 of students failing a CS class (except perhaps if it's full of humanities majors who were required to take it for some odd reason)