Math Corps

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Created at: 2020-10-07 15:07:37

Brief description of the program: "The WSU Math Corps, founded in 1991, is a combined academic and mentoring program for Detroit public school students in grades 6-12. It features a summer camp, year-round Saturday programs, and enrichment courses for elementary school children. Over the years, the Math Corps has posted dramatic results." Source: http://www.clas.wayne.edu/ceem/math-corps

Focus areas of this engagement: K-12 Education; STEM Education; Inclusion / Access

Community needs and community participation in assessing those needs.: An accurate description of the Math Corps is as a community of practice – a social environment of participants in which learning takes place informally, through relationships that are developed and our core practices that take place in a variety of contexts. We know from our experiences, that acts of caring and kindness—from praising a student for something as simple as holding the door open for others, making students smile with a joke or a kind word, to providing every student with a “big brother” or “big sister”—are extremely powerful. These ideas have created the culture at Math Corps, and it’s how we continue to grow our programs." Source: https://mathcorps.org/programs/

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