A page-one story mentions Wayne State University , like other universities and community colleges across the state, as seeing more students needing refresher classes in mathematics. This semester, there are more than 1,000 students in the college\'s two main developmental math sections. Ginnay Greene, who is studying medicine, is one of them. \"My high school math has kind of made me illiterate in some ways,\" said Greene of Detroit, who is struggling because she doesn\'t recognize equations coming up in her chemistry class. Patricia Bonesteel is reminded of math\'s status nearly every time she tells strangers at a dinner party that she teaches math. Inevitably, people admit to being bad at math. \"They say it's almost as if it is something they are proud of,\" said Bonesteel, who heads Wayne State \'s developmental math program. \"It\'s perfectly acceptable to be bad at math.\"