College students are still struggling with basic math. Professors blame the pandemic
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George Mason Term Instructor Ermias Kassaye, left, helps a student figure out an equation during a summer math boot camp on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. Researchers say math learning suffered during the pandemic for various reasons. An intensely hands-on subject, math was hard to translate to virtual classrooms. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)A student takes a break next to a whiteboard during a summer math boot camp on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. The pandemic disrupted all learning but caused an outsize impact in math. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)George Mason Term Instructor Ermias Kassaye, standing left, leads a summer math boot camp on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. Dozens opted to spend a week of summer break at the university brushing up on math lessons that didnt stick during pandemic schooling. The northern Virginia school started Math Boot Camp because of alarming numbers of students arriving with gaps in their math skills. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)A student uses his phone to copy the whiteboard at the end of a summer math boot camp session on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)Students uses their bodies to plot their location on a graph based on the number they are holding during a summer math boot camp session on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. Researchers say math learning suffered during the pandemic for various reasons. An intensely hands-on subject, math was hard to translate to virtual classrooms. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)Diego Fonseca, left, and his fellow students uses their bodies to plot their location on a graph based on the number they are holding during a summer math boot camp session on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. I managed to use the knowledge of the boot camp, and I got into calculus," Fonseca says. I didn't have any expectation I'd do that. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)Students take part in a summer math boot camp on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)George Mason undergraduate math major David Wigginton writes an equation on a whiteboard as students Ethan Hill, right, and Diego Fonseca, center, take part in a summer math boot camp on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)Rosa Sarmiento, second from left, and Alicia Davis, center, work together to solve the math equation written on a whiteboard during a summer math boot camp session on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)George Mason Term grad student Aman D'Souza, right, calls on Alicia Davis, second from left, during summer math boot camp on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
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George Mason Term Instructor Ermias Kassaye, left, helps a student figure out an equation during a summer math boot camp on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2023 at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va. Researchers say math learning suffered during the pandemic for various reasons. An intensely hands-on subject, math was hard to translate to virtual classrooms. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
