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As an extra resource for our students, the Department of Mathematics offers a Math Learning Center. The goal of the Center is to provide a supportive atmosphere in which serious students can learn mathematics. We offer comprehensive service to students taking MTH 1825, all 100 level math courses, MTH 234 and MTH 235. Limited help is available for other 200 level and 300 level courses. The facility is staffed primarily by teaching assistants who are currently teaching the courses in which they are providing assistance. The high quality of this staff is verified by their ratings from student evaluations of the classes they teach. The average rating for overall performance of our tutors is 3.1 out of 4.0.

The Center is located on the first floor of the A-Wing of Wells Hall. Students can find out the appropriate room for their particular class by going to the information booth in the lobby. We are open approximately 40 hours per week. We recorded about 13,000 visits by students for the Fall 2004 semester. Our surveys of those who use the center show that they rate our staff to be very friendly and very knowledgeable. Almost all students indicate that the Center has helped increase their math grades by anywhere from .5 to 1.0 on the standard 4.0 scale.

In addition to tutoring service, the mlc also sponsors review sessions before each exam in many large uniform cources. Please, see www.math.msu.edu/~mlc for more details.

The Department of Mathematics wants to see students succeed in their classes. The Math Learning Center is one of the services we offer to help students accomplish this. Our surveys show that students who fail the introductory courses are almost certain to have failed the first test. So it is very important to seek help early. We do not do homework for students, but we can help them understand the concepts and put them on the right track quickly.

The faculty supervisor of the Center is the Associate Chair, Prof. Clifford Weil (weil@math.msu.edu). Candy Giovanni (giovanni@math.msu.edu) is responsible for the coordination of the Center. For more information about the mlc, please see www.math.msu.edu/~mlc. If you have any quesions about the mlc, please email mlc@math.msu.edu. Comments regarding the Math Learning Center are welcomed and may be sent to Prof. Weil or Candy Giovanni.