General Questions
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You will not receive extra credit in your course for attending one of our sessions. However, our goal is to work with you to master the material so you will do well in your course.
If the MLC times for your course do not fit in your schedule, then you should try the following:
- Check your syllabus for your professor's office hours.
- You can also check the Virtual Math Learning Center which has online videos and practice problems that you can access at any time.
The Math Learning Center (MLC) and Virtual Math Learning Center (VMLC) are both meant to help TAMU students succeed in their math and stat courses, but they offer help in different ways.
- The Math Learning Center focuses on live help where you are interacting with a tutor or attending a review session. These sessions may be in person or on zoom.
- The Virtual Math Learning Center is entirely online with videos and practice problems that you can access at any time and study at your own pace. The VMLC has videos to help you master the material for a specific course, but it also has workshops devoted to specific math topics.
The MLC exists to serve TAMU students, and recording student IDs allows us to track how many students we are helping. Long term, the data is utilized to make informed decisions related to hiring, room sizes, and other program development opportunities.
For assistance with your MPE, please visit https://sites.google.com/tamu.edu/tamu-mpe/home
If you have already browsed our list of courses on the MLC and VMLC and do not see your course listed, we may not have resources available for your course at this time. We recommend that you reach out to your professor or review the class textbook.
Help Sessions
You do not need to make an appointment for Help Sessions. You only need to bring your student ID to sign in when you arrive for an in-person Help Session.
For Help Sessions, you can arrive and leave at any time during the session. You only need to make sure that you are attending the Help Session for your specific math course.
To join the session:
- You need to have a device such as a computer, a tablet (or even a phone) with a microphone (a camera is useful but not necessary).
- Make sure that you have the Zoom app. You may download the app and learn more about how to join Zoom meetings with your TAMU Account: https://it.tamu.edu/services/audio-video-and-telecommunication/audio-video/zoom/
- Find the Help Session you want to attend in the schedule below.
- Click the link to join the meeting.
Once you join the session:
- By default, your microphone will be initially muted and the camera will be off. You may activate them at the bottom of your Zoom screen.
- Click the icon "Participants" and the icon "Chat" at the bottom of the Zoom screen. This will allow you to see who is in the meeting and what questions have been asked through the Chat panel.
- If you want to ask a question, click the "Raise your hand" button before you speak and:
- If possible, submit the question (or the Problem number in the textbook) via the Chat room.
- If you have a more personalized question, show the printed (or clearly written) problem through the camera to the tutors.
- When you are not speaking, please be kind to the participants and mute your microphone to avoid excessive noise during the session.
- You can leave the session at any point by clicking the button saying 'Leave the Meeting'.
Give us a description of what you lost and we can see if it is still in the room. You can send us an email (mlc@tamu.edu), call us at 979-847-7311, or stop by the MLC office in Blocker 249. We hand over found items to the Open Access Lab on the first floor of Blocker so you can also check there.
Please notify us at mlc@tamu.edu.
Week-in-Review
You do not need to sign up for a Week-in-Review. You only need to bring your student ID or a mobile device to sign in when you arrive. There is no need to sign-in to an online (Zoom) hosted Week-in-Review.
The solutions for a Week-in-Review are only posted after the session has ended, usually the next day. However, it is always best to attend the session (if possible) so you can hear the explanation and discussion of each problem. The solutions are only posted to help those students who could not attend or did not get all the answers copied down during the session.
The Week-in-Reviews are meant to be live lectures where students get a review of the material covered during the previous week of the course. Most of the sessions are not recorded and will not be posted later. We do post the solutions after the session has ended. You can always check the Virtual Math Learning Center, which has online videos you can watch at any time.
Hands On, Grades Up
Yes, you need to register for Hands-on, Grades Up before attending. You can find the link for registering on the page for your course. If the registration is full for a session, then you can join the waitlist.
Hands-on, Grades Up sessions consist of active-learning structured activities dedicated to selected courses. To encourage participation, solutions are not provided for these sessions.
It is not required for you to arrive at the start of the Hands-on, Grades Up session. Space is limited for these sessions and they are first come first serve so we recommend that you arrive at the start of the session.
Hands-on, Grades Up is an active learning review session, and we encourage you to stay for the entire session. You will have the opportunity to work through the session in groups and participate in a collaborative environment. Space for these sessions is limited, and we encourage you to take advantage of this resource.