The state mandated College Credit Plus (CCP) program in Ohio has grown significantly for several years. Many general education core courses are being offered to high school students, on-premises or in a partnering university. In mathematics, students can complete pre-calculus courses while in high school. In forming the partnerships with high…

A summer bridge program for incoming engineering and computer science freshmen has been used at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 2007 to 2010. The primary purpose of this program has been to improve the mathematics course placement for incoming students who initially place into a course below Calculus I on the math placement examination.…

This paper analyses the answers of a group of first-year university Mathematics students to a questionnaire, with the aim of determining the difficulties they have when carrying out non-routine tasks related to improper integrals. The questionnaire consisted of nine questions including not only calculus tasks and determining the convergence of…