<p>skyhook,</p>
<p>The program our school uses is that for three 45 minutes per week, each class in grades 2-4 gets math labs. The class is broken down to groups of 3 to 4 students, which work on lab projects related to work they were doing in class. My guess is most of the moms doing this had very high math skills (based on occupation/education) and all attended training. I dont know how the teachers assigned groups.</p>
<p>I think it is great for students to work with adults who say math is my friend, I love math. Especially for girls to see women who say this. </p>
<p>Its fortunate our school disctict can get volunteers to do this. Not all can. I think that union contracts MUST be changed to allow schools to deal with inability to get more math in the classrooms.</p>