Midland College offers math mentoring — help with math homework for high school students

Rebecca Bell
Dean, Community Relations & Special Events

An on-going tutoring program in the Midland College Math Lab is available to help students in grades 7-12 with their math homework. Positive response from students in the program and their parents has continued the success of this program, now in its eleventh year.


Math Mentoring tutors are qualified and trained students in the Math program at Midland College. Most have tutoring experience. Dr. Margaret Wade, Midland College dean of math and science, began MC’s Math Mentoring program in 1999 in response to a need in the community for qualified math tutors. One of the early program tutors was Michael Dixon, who is now one of MC’s most popular math teachers.


The fall semester sessions of Math Mentoring are now in progress. Students in the 7th through 12th grades who are enrolled in Pre-Algrebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, Pre-Calculus, Geometry or Calculus are eligible for the program.


Students enroll by the month for eight one-hour sessions at a cost of $128 per month. Meetings with their MC peer tutor are scheduled two times a week, on Mondays and Wednesdays, or Tuesdays and Thursdays for one hour on each day. These sessions take place from 6:00-7:00 p.m. or 7:00-8:00 p.m. All tutoring is done in the Math Lab, Room 124 of the F. Marie Hall Academic Building on the MC campus.


To ensure that students get the attention they need from their tutor, each tutoring session is limited to two students. The tutor works with each enrolled student individually.


For more information, contact Deborah Vandergriff, (432) 685-6837, or Alma Brannan, (432) 685-6802.