Detroit students come together to teach and learn math from other students in Wayne State University’s highly successful Math Corps program. WSU students teach high school students, the high school students teach middle school students, and all students interact with WSU faculty members.

The nationally recognized six-week summer program is based on the goal of creating a self-perpetuating “army” of students from middle school through college who excel in mathematics and pass their knowledge and enjoyment of the subject on to other students.

“The students who attended Math Corps in its early years are now college age,” says Sandra York,
director of operations, WSU Mathematics Pipeline, “and, as a result of the self-confidence learned in Math Corps, many of them are attending college. In fact, many attend Wayne because they feel
an attachment to Detroit and have a desire to give back to their own community.”