Mission Statement
The Math Learning Center fosters the academic success of Texas A&M students by supporting the high-enrollment courses with significant mathematics, statistics, and quantitative reasoning content, particularly those courses that fulfill core curriculum requirements or serve as prerequisites for more advanced topics. Faculty from various collaborating departments, as well as skilled graduate teaching assistants and undergraduate mentors, promote the growth of students’ conceptual and practical math skills using engaging learning strategies such as tutoring, study sessions, workshops, and weekly reviews. The Math Learning Center provides a welcoming and inclusive environment and takes alternative and flexible approaches to learning.
Overview of Programs
Our operations started in the Spring 2020 semester, when we established several initial support activities throughout campus. As of Spring 2021, the Math Learning Center has moved to a permanent location in Blocker and offers support activities both online and in-person.
Help Sessions
- Interactive help
- Get individual questions answered
- Led by undergraduate tutors
- No appointment necessary
- Course-specific content
- Help Sessions open to all students, dedicated to specific courses, take place throughout the day and in the evenings. They are staffed by well-trained and skilled tutors.
- You will be able to freely check-in with a student ID or login to Zoom and walk in and out at any point, work in groups or individually, while assisted by the tutors.
Hands-on, Grades Up
- Active learning sessions
- Course-specific content
- Led by undergraduate tutors
- This program was piloted during Spring 2020. Hands-on, Grades Up sessions consist of active-learning structured activities dedicated to selected courses. Just as in athletic programs, the basic premise here is that to achieve success you need to learn by practicing exercises, discussing problems and unraveling the precise meaning of concepts and how they relate to the problems being solved and to applications.
Week-in-Review
- Course specific
- Taught by faculty
- Reviews material covered in the corresponding course during the prior week
- Weekly handouts with solutions provided by the faculty member
- The Week-in-Review sessions are weekly lectures conducted by faculty members.
- Each session gives a concise overview of the material covered in the corresponding course during the prior week.
- The WIRs help you to synthesize and assimilate the material taught in detail during class, by providing an overview that places the content under the proper perspective. With the use of carefully selected material, instructors illustrate the concepts with meaningful examples and problem solutions.
Virtual Math Learning Center
- Self-paced learning for course-specific information, handouts, and video libraries
- Practice problems for applied content understanding
- Course specific content developed by faculty, undergraduate tutors, and Math Learning Staff