We would like to invite you to a two-day zoom/in-person hybrid workshop offered by CyMath, Math for STEM Success: Grade to Grad School, on Friday, January 30 (afternoon), and Saturday, January 31 (morning). Our target audience is all stakeholders in math education, ranging from graduate students and faculty with educational and outreach interests to K-12 educators, parents, and STEM industry.

Strong math skills are the backbone of STEM success. Since math learning is cumulative, fixing the early (K-8) math skills of students is critical for maximizing the likelihood of their future success in any field and especially in STEM.  On the other hand, good research communication and teaching skills are critical for all faculty and graduate students, especially those considering academia, as well as for future schoolteachers. For those of us in math-intensive fields, sometimes explaining our work in a way that others can follow is not easy. Moreover tutoring also helps some of us find community – friends or extra mentors, nag our own children less, understand how our students learned math in high school or earlier, write about impactful broader impacts of our research in grant proposals (experience with 5-6 funded NSF grants — it’s greatly appreciated)
We will discuss how STEM faculty and graduate students can improve their own soft skills while helping improve their future students’ math skills.  We will also talk about what Engineering/Math educators hope schools or families do to help students learn their early math well in order to help them thrive in Algebra and more advanced math as well as Physics or Computer Science. Lastly we discuss the pros and cons of eliminating homework from elementary and middle schools from a long-term STEM success perspective.