Identifying Student Gaps and How to Close Them

Lachlan Swain
Lachlan Swain
Team Lead: Implementation & Support

Anyone who is good at something was, at first, terrible at it. I have no proof of it; but to me, this seems to be logically true. No one is born knowing anything (apart from knowing that chocolate tastes good, perhaps); and everything we do is either the result of a combination of previous experiences, …

Math Anxiety in Higher Education: The Wicked Problem Higher Ed Can’t Ignore (and How We’re Tackling It)

Natalya Kulagina
Natalya Kulagina
Product Owner

As a company that works in the higher education technology space, we’re familiar with the dreaded phrase “math anxiety.” It’s a pervasive issue that impacts student success, course completion rates, and even career choices. But, what if you were told that simply aiming for “early success” – like passing grades – isn’t enough to truly …

Conquer Math Anxiety: Your Path to Success in Math (and Beyond)

Somlynn Rorie
Somlynn Rorie

Whether you’ve struggled with math since grade school or it’s a recent challenge in college, the feeling of math anxiety is all too real. If equations suddenly feel terrifying again, or the pressure of college math makes you break out in a sweat, you’re in good company. Math anxiety is a common experience, but here’s …

Unlocking Academic Success: How to Help Students Conquer Math Anxiety

Jonny Zivku
Jonny Zivku
Director, Product Marketing

Math anxiety, characterized by fear and apprehension toward performing mathematical calculations, is a significant challenge for students. This is particularly prevalent during their first year in higher education, as they step into their new-found independence.This period marks a major transition for students and compounds the weight of first-year anxiety, especially having just moved from high …

Learning Online with Möbius: A Student’s Perspective

In mid-March the University of Waterloo suspended all on-campus classes and quickly transitioned to online learning. One of the smoothest transitions for me was Linear Algebra I for Honours Mathematics (Math 136), which employed the use of Möbius.
Somlynn Rorie
Somlynn Rorie

A Sudden Shift In mid-March the University of Waterloo suspended all on-campus classes and quickly transitioned to online learning. One of the smoothest transitions for me was Linear Algebra I for Honours Mathematics (Math 136), which employed the use of Möbius. The remainder of the course was primarily taught using videos created by professors using …

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