Freshman Math Placement Data

While we are working on our new curriculum development, we may want to consider the CS freshmen math placement statistics I've collected over the last three years:


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 * !Semester ||!Freshmen ||!Below MA 110 ||!MA 110 ||!MA 190 ||!Above MA 190 ||
 * Fall 2010 ||E35 ||17.00% ||29.00% ||29.00% ||6.00% ||
 * Fall 2011 ||E19 ||21.00% ||47.00% ||26.00% ||5.00% ||
 * Fall 2012 ||E23 ||0.00% ||65.00% ||26.00% ||4.00% ||

More than 50% of the incoming freshmen CS majors cannot take MA 190 Precalc in their first semester, and so cannot take MA 220 Discrete Math I in the spring semester.

We should consider how this affects our assumptions about what courses the students should take at each point in the curriculum.
 * 1) Should we ask Math to offer MA 220/MA 290 as Fall/Spring so that the students can take them in their Sophomore year? (As opposed to Spring/Fall - Freshmen 2/Sophomore 1 as we assume now.)
 * 2) Does Discrete Math need Precalc as a prerequisite, or is College Algebra sufficient?
 * 3) What CS course do we want them taking Discrete I in parallel with?