Remedial college classes cost billions

This sort of news is frustrating to be heard for college students and California. It is sad to see many high school students graduating then finding they are unprepared to meet the standards in college/univeristy. Many college freshmen today that just entered college finds that they are unprepared and are placed in remedial classes and the numbers of remedial classes in California are increasing. I believe that remedial classes are helpful in helping college students to become more prepared, but remedial classes are just too time consuming and frustrating. I think the reason why college freshmen don't have the skills they need for college is because they didn't put enough effort in their work when they were in high school. Many high school students who say high school is too hard has no clue that there is another level of education that is even harder. I think the reason why high school students believe that the work is hard is that they don't get the material. Some reasons why they don't get the material are they don't pay attention in class, don't complete their assignments, don't do well on tests, socialize too much on their phones and internet, and cut classes. It is not to say that high school students should over work their abilities, but at least high school students should put more time and effort in their work so they can understand the material and not have to worry that they are unprepared for college classes.

I believe this news is a warning for high school students to put as much effort they can in their work so they can be prepared for college courses and not have to worry about being placed in remedial classes. With more students putting more effort in their work, there would be less stress in the future, less remedial classes, and more money could be saved to be used for improving school districts.

Remedial Classes

Pre-school is created to prepare children how to interact with other children in elementary school. Elementary school is to teach students how to behave properly. Middle school installs study habits. High school is to apply all of the acquired skills to prepare for the higher education of college. Yet today, billions of dollars are spent annually on remedial classes for freshmen attending college. High school students who thought they did well in school due to their easy A's and cool teachers realize the hard way that college is nothing like high school. Everyone in college is there to learn and research, yet in high school all everyone seems to care about is who goes out with who, current trends and styles, and who is social networking instead of doing homework. Has the public eduation system failed us students again due to the lack of efficient teachers who are capable of challenging the students and prepare them for the rigorous courses in college? Or is it simply society to blame, for all the "short-cuts" it has created through meaningless technology and short-sighting the people on how their current actions will affect them in the long-term?

Remedial College Classes cost Billions

I believe this news should tell us that we should try harder in high school while they can in order to avoid paying for it in college. This should really push students to do their best unless they want to pay later on. And all that hard work will pay off, they can achieve good grades so they can actually get in a good college and if they tried hard enough in high school then they wouldn't have to deal with it in college. Probably take AP or HP classes while you can no matter how hard they are. And you have to learn the material, not only be familiar with it. They may not know it but it will help them in the long run. All these will help you save money in the future.

Remedial College Classes Cost Billions

I think that this shows that high school students should take the hardest class available-AP and HP courses. Students should also learn the material well, not just good enough to pass. Some students might think that AP/HP classes will take too much time and effort but it will be worth it in the long run. If students take the steps necessary to succeed not only in high school but also in college then they would also save some money in the future.

remedial classes

I think the remedial classes in college should be cheaper. It's not the students' fault if their highschool teachers aren't giving them their proper education. Some teachers "baby" their students. They make it so easy to get an "A" in the class, which in turns give a false impression to the students that they're smart and on track. Highschool teachers aren't preparing their students. The remedial classes are costing colleges billions of dollars, when it should not.

Redemial College Classes Cost Millions

This is a very eye opening article. I think that I am a pretty good student that ahas a very high GPA and now reading this article it has got me thinking that maybe when I go to college instead of getting A's I will be getting F's. However I am happy that I read this article because it is important for high school students to know that they need to take harder classes so that hey are prepared for college. I am taking a lot of AP and HP classes and I will continue to take them so I am prepared for college. It is very important that students know that an A in high school does not mean and A in college. I think school should try to fit the standards of college a lot more closely and expect higher of us because if they don;t we will be stuck taking remedial classes which are a waste of time and money because you should have learned the material in high school. I think student should have higher expectation of them selves and teacher should have higher standards so that when we go to college the standards and curriculum aren't a surprise to us.

Remedial college classes cost billions

Many students in their high school years aren't taking their studies seriously which leads to students having to spend more money just to cover things that they could've learned for free, in high school. Studies that many students are spending around 2 billion in school learning what they were suppose to have learned. The reason for this article is for students to know and understand that college is no joke and they should start taking it more seriously. This article makes people realize that suceeding in high school may not certainly mean you would do well in college. So you should always challenge yourself to new things so you can be more prepared.

Chapter P-Graphing Functions

1. The original parent function of this graph was y=|x|

2. Then, I wanted to do a vertical translation 8 units up, which led me to get the equation of y=|x|+8. As you can see, this function was in red and the vertex moved 8 units up on the y-axis.

3. Next, to do a horizontal translation, I decided that I wanted to move the graph 8 units to the right along on x-axis, so the equation became y=|x-8|, the function is shown in blue.

4. After that, I wanted to do a reflection across the x-axis, so my equation was y = -|x|, which was shown in purple. All of my y point from my (x,y) coordinates had become negative.

5. In green, I had done a horizontal translation 2 units to the left, followed by a vertical translation 4 units down(y=|x+2|-4.

6. Finally, for my last black graph, equation I had reflected my original function across the x-axis and then did a vertical translation 10 units down. The equation i ended up with was y= -|x-3|-10.




For Back to School Night, I brought my mom. She laughed at the idea of me teaching her Math, because she had barely been able to get a decent education growing up. As the night proceeded and as she began trying the translations it made a little more sense to her. She got the idea of doing vertical translations and horizontal translations.

Ch. P: Graphing Functions

So what I did here was interpret the original function y=|x| (shown facing upwards in black) in these few different changes you see here in various colors. I started off with a vertical translation (as you can see in red), which is y=|x| + 3. It is still the same function, but it only moved 3 spaces up on the y-axis. The next one was a horizontal translation (as shown in blue) as y=|x - 1|. This here is moved to the right one unit of the x-axis. In green, I performed both a horizontal and vertical translation which is y=|x-2| + 3 (right two units, up 3 units). The next one was a reflection shown in purple, y=-|x|. As you can see, the original function is just simply reflected, so it's facing downwards. The last transformation that I graphed was all of these put together -- a vertical translation, a horizontal translation, and a reflection. And so, this is y=-|x-1|-1.Back to School Night Extra Credit:
For Back to School Night I had to bring my brother (my parents were unavailable for the time being -- my brother is old enough to be my dad though! Haha) and so I told him to choose a function. He chose the cubic root function because he said it looked cool, so I helped him through it. He said he does not even remember doing these translations in his high school years, but that was about 15 years ago. Overall it was fun teaching him, because he understands most of the stuff that I told him.

Chapter P: Graphing Functions

Back to school night Extra Credit: My mom never got a proper education so she was rather delighted to knoe that she was learning some math. She got confused alot since it was new to her and it was pretty complicated since I had to translate into another language. She eventually got the hang of it and got pretty much the main point of it. Even though she didn't finish, she at least learned something new.

First, I had to draw the original function(in black) which is y= l x l. Next, I drew the vertical translation(in red) where I moved up the y-axis 7 units up and the equation was then y= l x l +7. Afterwards, I drew the horizontal translation(in blue) where I moved 4 units to the left on the x-axis, and the equation would then be y= l (x+4)^2 l. Then, I drew the vertical and horizontal translation(in green) where I moved 7 units up the y-axis and 4 units to the left, x-axis and the equation would be y= l (x+4)^2 l +7. Then, I drew the vertical reflection of the original function across the x-axis and the equation would be y=-l x l. Lastly, I drew the reflection (across the x-axis) of the vertical and horizontal translation. I would first reflect across the x-axis, moving 4 units to the left on the x-axis, and going down 7 units on the y-axis, the equation would equal y= l -x+4)^2 l -7. In total, I did 5 transformations excluding the original function.

CH. P - How to Do Graphing Functions

1.) Describe what you did using mathematical vocabulary. The following words must be used correctly, and highlighted or boldfaced in your description.

- First off, I sketched the basic function which was y=x^2 also known as the parent graph (colored in black.) Then, I sketched a vertical translation where I moved up 5 on the y-axis (colored in red) and the equation came out to be y=x^2+6. After that, I sketched a horizontal translation where I moved 4 to the right on the x-axis (colored in blue) and the equation came out to be y=(x-4)^2. Then, I sketched a vertical and horizontal translation where I moved up 6 and 4 to the right (colored in green) and the equation came out to be y=(x-4)^2+6. Finally, I sketched a vertical reflection across the x-axis and the equation came out to me y=-x^2. Overall, I made 5 new transformations.

2.) Scan your graphed functions and include the the picture in your blog.

3.) Back to School Night Extra Credit - Scan your Parent's classwork into your blog. Write a few sentences about what you and your parents thought about learning transformations.

- Well, first off, my mom thought that this project was somewhat hard. LOL. I don't know why but she had trouble figuring out what to do so I had to explain everything very explicitly and descriptive to her. She started to get the whole idea of graphing the functions and putting them into equations. My mom's favorite subject is math so even though it was a challenge at first, she kind of enjoyed it because now she knows how to sketch the graphs and write the equations that goes along with it.

Graphing Functions

I drew the function y=x^2, which is the parent graph and the one in black. I made five different transformation to the original one. I made a horizontal shift 3, to the right in green. And a vertical shift 2, downwards in blue. I combined the two translations to get y=(x-3)^2-2, which is in red. I then, made a reflection of the graph, which is basically a transformation over the x-axis.

During back to school night, I taught my mom how to make the same y=x^2 graph, but with different translation. The first thing I told her to do was to trace the parent graph on a patty paper, immediately she recognized it as a parabola. I taught her how to do a vertical and horizontal shift and how to read the functions. At the end i was surprised she actually understood all of it. Throughout my whole life, I had always asked my dad for help on homework, i guess i should ask my mom more often.