Marvin Early, formerly a student at University of Wisconsin Stout where MyMathLab is in use, was so excited about passing math that he wrote a rap song about the school's Math Lab.
“I have suffered from math anxiety and have never done well in math until now. MyMathLab removed the anxiety of traditional math classes where tests are timed and often instructors have time constraints.”
Florence-Darlington Technical College (SC)
“I like that MyMathLab lays out all of the things that you need to study. It keeps things in order, keeps you on track, and helps you learn how to solve all of the problems needed to pass the course. I never would have thought that I could have this much help in math while taking it online, but I really think that MyMathLab is a great resource and everyone should use it.”
University of South Florida, (FL)
“I have to admit that I was very nervous about taking this class because I am not much of a math person. But I have found that I have been doing so much better than I had expected due to all of the great resources in MyMathLab. The ability to keep practicing over and over until I get it, the ability to see an example and explanation of how a problem is done, and the ability to go in and find out what I need to practice more is phenomenal. This is something that cannot be done in a classroom because not everyone has confusion with the same problems and in a classroom setting, the pace is set for the entire class rather than the individual. Having all of these resources online is like having a personal tutor for the class.”
Massasoit Community College (MA)
“I think MyMathLab is one of the greatest sites ever! It does an unreal job of allowing students to continuously learn from their mistakes and to go through many examples of problems that may be causing trouble. This site is a great teaching tool for this course, is extremely easy to work with, and I highly recommend it.”
Onondaga Community College (NY)
“I was able to work at my own pace. I didn’t feel like I was pressured to keep up with anyone, and I didn’t feel like I was being held back by anyone.”
Northern Virginia Community College (VA)
“So far my learning experience in this class has really helped me catch up on material that I had forgotten and in turn is affecting my performance in my other classes in a positive way.”
University of South Florida (FL)
“I think that MyMathLab is a great tool for online math courses, and wish that this was used in my 050 class.”
Ivy Tech State College (IN)
“I enjoyed the ability to work at my own pace as well as having so much extra information available to me. Many different sources available made feel like this course was designed for success."
Boise State University (ID)
“MyMathLab is like having my own personal tutor guiding me through the challenges of mathematical equations. More importantly, MyMathLab is at my disposal and at my convenience, which is an enormous asset in today's busy society. MyMathLab instructs me step-by-step through each math problem, allowing me to learn each crucial part of the equation solving process at my own pace. This wonderfully helpful program allows me the freedom to repeat this process an infinite amount of times, on the same mathematical equation without my feeling like I'm burdening an instructor’s time schedule…. MyMathLab has been an essential part of my academic and mathematical success. I earned a 4.0 GPA, and without MyMathLab I probably wouldn't have been this successful at math.”
University of Central Arkansas (AR)
“My highlight this week was a student who had previously failed Math 200 (in my class) and has been placed in Math 100. She came in very stressed on Monday. I got her started on Chapter 7 in MyMathLab and by midweek, she said: Wow--I never thought I would say this, but this is kind of fun… I am starting to like math.”
Rudy Roberts, San Joaquin Valley College
“Since I first began requiring online homework using MathXL in my college algebra class in the summer of 2005, I have seen a tremendous improvement in student success. Passing rates have gone up around 10%, test averages have increased 9%, and the number of students earning an A in the course has gone up an astounding 25%! This is a strong indication that the students are learning the material more thoroughly than they did by simply doing homework out of the book. As an added bonus, the students feel more involved in the course and responsible for their own learning. Thus, my withdrawal rates have decreased by 10-15%. I am so thrilled to have finally found a way to require my students to do homework in a way that keeps them engaged, forces them to truly learn and understand the material, and also saves me the headache of grading paper-and-pencil homework assignments!”
Brooke Quinlan, Hillsborough Community College
“As director of the Math Teaching and Learning Center at UW-Stout, I've been extremely pleased with the results we've been getting since we began using MyMathLab in 2004. After five complete semesters of operation, the Math TLC has served a total of 1600 students in Beginning and Intermediate Algebra. Failure/withdrawal rates have decreased by 62% in Beginning Algebra and by 32% in the Intermediate course. A large factor in this turnaround has been the online homework: we've achieved a 96% homework submission rate, with an average homework score of 94%. The immediate feedback, multiple chances to re-do a new version of missed problems, and the many avenues for online help have motivated these formerly math-phobic students to put in an average of 95 minutes a day on ALGEBRA homework--amazing! The UW-Stout Math TLC was recently awarded a 3-year, $450,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education via the Fund for the Improvement for Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) program. As part of the grant project the Math TLC team will be running series of workshops to assist other universities and colleges in setting up MyMathLab-based courses and targeted peer tutoring programs in Beginning and Intermediate Algebra. More information on the workshops and the Math TLC program is available online at http://mathtlc.uwstout.edu.”
Jean Foley, University of Wisconsin Stout
“MyMathLab is one of the most reliable of all online Math programs. After teaching with MML I wouldn't want to go back to the traditional way of teaching Math. MML stimulates better student/teacher interaction in a lab setting. It tracks and grades homework for you. And it's a great tutorial for students when they get stuck.”
Sheila Pisa, Riverside Community College
“The MyStatLab exercises are greatly improved in variety and algorithms, taking full advantage of the MathXL Player that had been available in other math courses. I can write my own questions to add to the already nice collection. I feel like I died and went to 'hog heaven'--it is soooooooooo GREAT! Also, I have some students that had been in other MML courses, and the transition for them was easy.”
Dr. Gwen Terwilliger, University of Toledo
“I absolutely love MyMathLab. I believe whole-heartedly that it has made a definite improvement in my students' grades and understanding level. I have fewer students dropping out of the courses I am teaching using this method than in the past, before MML. I recommend it to everybody I know!!”
Susan Hutchinson, Florence Darlington Technical College
“The increase in student success is 27%. Students who would have been lost with a nontransferable 'D' or an 'F' are now passing the course.”
Community College in the Chicago-land area
“MyMathLab is the most exciting thing to happen to our preparatory math program in years. I was skeptical at first, wondering how a tool that requires self-motivation and discipline would ever work for our students, particularly since they have nothing to gain by finishing the coursework early; but now that I've been able to compare my computer-mediated sections with traditional lecture-based classes, I am sold. Students are too. My exam averages and course pass rates are up. Students are actively engaged in practicing math, ask more and better questions, and enjoy the learning process. They appreciate the instant feedback and aren't satisfied until they get 100% on the homework assignments. When it comes time to register for the next class, most students who have done both lecture-based and MyMathLab hybrid classes seek out the MyMathLab sections. They feel a real sense of accomplishment because they recognize and can take credit for the role they've played in their success.”
Jill Shirley, Cal Poly Pomona
“This has been the cleanest program I have seen so far. It just works so well. That's why you (the support organization) haven't heard a lot from me this semester -- and that's a good thing. My doctor hasn't seen much of me either -- and that's a good thing too.”
Bill Van Alstine, Aiken Technical College
The students who seem to have benefited the most from MyMathLab were our students with learning disabilities. Their testimonials via e-mail and via personal contact were overwhelmingly positive. Some described MyMathLab as “Simply Awesome!” Some stated that this was their second time through the course, and claimed that if they had had MyMathLab when they took the course the first time, they would have passed the course then.
Faculty surveyed at University of Missouri, Columbia
“Just wanted to report on a great success this semester. I was using MyMathLab for the first time this summer, and you graciously answered all my questions and made yourself available for any problems. Since I haven't had any problems, I haven't needed to call for HELP. Thanks for a great program! The students love it and I am so pleased with it…. Now that I've been able to get direct feedback from the students, I'm ready to go with distance learning. My students tell me that it has been as close to zero frustration as computers get and an invisible learning curve.”
Jane Gumbiner, Pasco-Hernando Community College
“My students are really learning and working hard because they are getting the help and reinforcement that they have always needed in a math class. They get explanation in the math lecture, and then it is up to them to get the homework done in MyMathLab by the deadline date. They love knowing they can re-do the homework problems until they get 100% (until the deadline date, of course). So the deadlines motivate them to come for help and to ask questions. They can take the assigned tests over and over until they make a perfect score or until time runs out. It is wonderful! I am truly enjoying this semester more than any other semester because so many students are getting motivated and they are enjoying math! This is a teacher's dream!”
Linda Tredway Wright, Sam Houston State University
“It is so easy to set up and manage a MyMathLab course website for an internet math course. Posting schedules and expiration dates of announcements, homework assignments, and online tests can be done ahead of time. I will not use other packages to run my online math classes.”
O. Pauline Chow, Harrisburg Area Community College
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