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Consistently high failure rates in the college algebra course in a predominantly Hispanic university prompted this study. A cohort of 1,362 students completed a survey addressing students’ entry-level knowledge, educational expectation and motivation indicators, attitudes toward math, and family support for education. The lack of significant differences between ethnic groups in the variables measured may indicate a need to shift researchers’ attention from student background variables toward the teaching component of the teaching-learning equation.

Sets, Logic, and Writing is a course that offers students an innovative, interdisciplinary mathematics and English composition curriculum in a collaborative learning environment. The mathematics instructor and the English instructor team teach in the same classroom, integrating topics from both disciplines. The goal of the course is to enhance the reasoning, problem-solving skills, and critical thinking of underprepared college freshmen, enabling them to perform better in more advanced mathematics and writing courses