The Denver Transfer Initiative’s Summer Math Workshop Series has provided math students with an opportunity to improve their mathematical skills, regardless of their level, through both group and one-on-one tutoring over a six-week period. The hope for the workshop series is that participating students will then take the ACCUPLACER exam and successfully test up from or out of their current math classes.
Workshop participants are able to ask detailed questions about the material covered in each session, and can get the assistance they need in a comfortable, non-threatening learning environment.
James Ross, the coordinator and instructor of the math workshops stated, “The math workshop was interesting because we got to really look at those things that math students are self-conscious about - in a setting where the students didn’t have to worry about feeling like they were holding their class back or making fools out of themselves by asking questions about basic math issues. Together we actually got to explore what it means to really learn math, and not necessarily in the linear way taught in most collegiate math classes, but in a circuitous way that felt more organic and was more effective at catching any “math stragglers” that the material had left behind. Was our workshop perfect? No, not by any means, but I think everyone who participated in and completed the workshop would agree that it was definitely an adventure - a fun one - and that doesn’t happen too often with math.”
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