Have you ever been stuck on a math problem and not been sure where you can seek help? Well, help in mathematics is here and it's free!
Located in the Learning Center in Willamette Hall, the Math Help Desk is a drop-in service for every level of math at Linn-Benton Community College. The Math Department helps the Learning Center by funding the Math Help Desk.
In addition to the Math Help Desk, there is a classroom dedicated to Math 20, where students can go in to get help all day long. In addition, the Math Angle offers free tutoring. It is located in the Learning Center as well.
Math Help Desk's are located at all LBCC campuses: Sweet Home, Lebanon, Albany, and Corvallis (Benton Center).
Each location sets its own hours depending on availability of staff for the Math Help Desk, so students should check the hours.
The Math Help Desk on the Albany campus is staffed, with at least one assistant, the entire time that the Learning Center is open. Vikki Maurer, the math faculty/Learning Center co-coordinator, is the person who hires the staff who work at the help desk. She has worked at LBCC for 20 years and has been in her current position for six years.
"It's not an answer checking service. Students can't come up and say 'Did I get number two right?' That's not the purpose." said Maurer.
The purpose of the Math Help Desk is to help students solve a problem. Students can ask an assistant about a problem and the assistant will help the student get "unstuck." Or a student may say something like, "My answer doesn't match the back of the book" and the assistant will help by looking for the student's error.
The Math Help Desk is a popular service at LBCC. During Fall Term, LBCC students asked about 8,100 questions at the Math Help Desk.
"It's amazing," said physics major Jeremy Bible "There have been times when I've been stuck on problems and if I didn't have the Math Help Desk it probably would've taken hours of research on the internet to find the answer."
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