Math is a giant hurdle for most community college students pursuing welding and other career and technical degrees. About a dozen years ago, the administration at Linn-Benton Community College looked at their data and found that many students in career and technical education, or CTE, were getting most of the way toward a degree but were stopped by a math course. That’s not unusual: Up to 60 percent of students entering community college are unprepared for college-level work, and the subject they most often need help with is math. The college asked the math department to design courses tailored to those students, starting with its welding, culinary arts and criminal justice programs. The first of those, math for welders, rolled out in 2013. More than a decade later, welding department instructors say that math for welders has had a huge impact on student performance. Two years ago, Linn-Benton asked Lopez to design a similar course for its automotive technology program; they began to offer that course last fall. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gsEqRqrg