To Keep Students in Stem Fields, Let’s Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes

Math is a language. It is the language of science. Even in the life sciences you need to understand sampling statistics and p-values. Chemistry involves reaction rates and exponentials.

Learning any language is hard. But without the ability to read, understand, and use language you limit yourself.

TLDR: title is misleading. It’s not about removing math classes, it’s about redoing them so that they’re taylored to the particular stem field they’re taken in.

E.g. rather than a standard intro to calculus which uses abstract examples, the new intro to calculus for a biology courses is heavily based on biology examples and applications.