ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the multiple mathematics pathways approach, and focuses on the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways (DCMP). Applications of mathematics and statistics are now normative practice in the social sciences and a wide variety of other fields. College-readiness deficits surface in a broad swath of undergraduate mathematics education programs. Failure to succeed in remedial and in college-level mathematics courses is correlated with non-completion and employment disappointment. Attention to civic readiness is critical to preparing students for successful futures, and this is especially relevant for mathematics education. In higher education, placement, transfer, and applicability policies and practices reinforce misalignment and remediation barriers by defaulting to algebra-based developmental course sequences for students, regardless of academic or career aspirations. Mathematics pathways represent a strategy that coherently combines targeted methods to address key structural, curricular, and pedagogical barriers to college, career, and civic readiness through mathematics.
