Precalculus Course Redesign for Student Success

Precalculus is the number one math course on your campus for D/F/NC for both the total student population as well as Non-white Hispanic/Other student groups. Since it is a gateway course for science courses/majors such as chemistry and physics, it disqualifies many of these students from starting their desired program and eventually hinders them from completing these programs within 4 years. There are many of these students who require multiple attempts in precalculus before success is achieved. This rate of repeating students effects the available of the course for incoming freshman as it is in high demand. Finally, the pace of course is highly demanding. This contributes to the NC grade choice which means students plan to recycle to the next semester in hopes of improving their outcome