The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a new report from the university’s Senate–Administration Working Group on Admissions. In the 2025 fall cohort, one in 12 students placed into math below a middle school level, despite having a solid math GPA.

For fall 2024, UC San Diego revamped its remedial math course to address middle school math gaps and introduced an additional remedial course to cover high school math. In fall 2025, 921 students enrolled in one of these two courses—11.8 percent of the incoming class.

  • Jessvj93@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I tutored a few kids around the Inland Empire in my last job, what I was doing what the equivalent of pouring a bottle of water on a forest fire. Scores I imagine were bad enough years ago before ipad kids were a thing. But man some of my students broke down at being in 6th grade not being able to read.