Okay, so I am almost finished my AA degree at a community college. However, I can’t pass remedial math and move on to regular math. The remedial class is algebra and I can’t pass it. I took the class online and my final was in person. I just don’t know what to do? If I transfer can I take this remedial math at another college? Do remedial courses transfer? Thanks
Unfortunately, remedial classes almost always do not transfer to universities. That being said, you would have to check with specific schools on their transfer credit policies.
If you need the algebra class for your AA degree AND you plan on getting this degree from your community college, then you can’t take it at another university without not getting your AA degree. So, if you transfer to another college without completing this class, then you wouldn’t have an AA degree. Would you be ok with this?
Have you also tried a math tutor to help you pass the class? Or maybe talk one-on-one with the instructor for help? It sounds like you’ve taken this remedial class more than once so now would be the time to seriously ask for assistance.
Re-take the class in a live version. An online class for a subject you are remedial in is a bad idea. You need direct person-to-person contact to get through the material.
@happymomof1 Unfortunately it’s getting harder to take them in person. My CC has had problems with people failing remedial math for a long time, and they’ve recently changed the structure of the courses. The courses are all computer based now, with video lectures, “checkpoint” exercises, assignments, and exams all on the computer. There is no “professor” as such. They still have a mandatory class time, during which the “professor” is there, but only answering questions and helping clarify things, not teaching the class or giving lectures.
A lot of community colleges are starting to implement programs like that for the remedial math courses now. I’m not sure that it’s a good thing either.
Get a tutor then Get Algebra for Dummies, your local library may even have it. Seriously. It saved many people I know. Including me
@comfortablycurt - That’s too bad, but I can understand why your CC has gone to that system. It is hard to find well-qualified Math teachers. If the students do all the homework, and if they go to the study sessions, and if they ask the tutor/professor for clarification this system can work. However, lots of students skimp on at least one of those steps, and that leads to trouble.
In my experience, the secret to passing math classes has been to do every single problem in the textbook over and over and over again until I knew I had it right. That, and attending every single tutoring session available to me.
There are good and bad aspects to the system. I can understand the need for it though. Before implementing the math lab here, a typical semester had about 7-8 sections of Algebra I, and yet only one section of Calc II. There were tons of students who had to take introductory algebra 2+ times. That’s a problem that definitely needs to be resolved. So far some students seem to like it, and some students can’t stand it.
Thanks for all your advice. My college just offers the live class with the computer program. My friend took it and said the teacher didn’t even know math and was pretty much just a proctor. Maybe I will transfer without my AA and finish remedial math at another school. Hopefully their math will be easier and not algebra.
You aren’t going to be able to get out of passing algebra, so you should probably forget about that hopeful though. 
You’ll have to take a college level math course to get a bachelors at basically any university. The prerequisites for those college level math courses is…algebra.