October 26, 2007
Getting Students Through Remedial Math Is a Constant Struggle, but This College Keeps Trying
Walter Hunter, who teaches a remedial algebra class at Montgomery County Community College, brought scissors to class last month so his students could cut their textbooks in half.
The five-pound, 1,000-page tomes were unwieldy, Mr. Hunter explained, and the bulging pages made it difficult for students to write notes and solve equations in the book. With glee, students cut away, slicing off the second half of the book, which was not used much in the class anyway.
James Schneck, a
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