For the second year in a row, the Washington County School District and Dixie State University have received a Step Up completion grant from the Utah System of Higher Education to support a cooperative partnership between the institutions.
Valued at $37,500, the grant funds a tutoring system in which 15 DSU students go to area high schools and serve as tutors in upper-level math classes.
“As a teacher, I am unable to reach every student needing help, though I continually walked around the room to help them,” said Jim Fitzgerald from the math department at Dixie High School. “The college students provided by the grant are valuable to the kids. It even got to the point that some of the kids who were struggling the most in math would often look around for the tutors and ask where they were when they did not see them.”
The primary goal of the grant is to increase the percentage of high school students enrolling in a fourth year of math by 5 percent. Currently, only 36 percent of seniors in area high schools are enrolled in a math course.
Additionally, the grant provides excellent part-time employment and experience for DSU students who are studying math and math education, said Dr. David Roos, who wrote the grant and serves as assistant vice president of student success and extracurricular assessment at DSU.
For additional information about the partnership between DSU and the Washington County School District, visit old.dixie.edu/mathcounts.
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