Culver City Observer -

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a nearly $200,000 grant to West Los Angeles College to pilot a computer-aided pre-calculus class with the goal of increasing the number of students who succeed in Calculus and qualify to enter science and technology career pathways. The grant award category was "Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions."

According to the college's grant application, many community college students intending to major in science, technology, engineering and/or math (STEM) are underprepared for calculus so precalculus has become a g...