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This National Science Foundation–funded program helps students strengthen math skills. Students will learn to solve problems and explain their thinking using mathematician George Polya’s four-step approach. (Grades K–12; priced per teacher or school, with free trial available)

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Through ongoing research, MIND Research Institute continues to investigate key questions about learning, mathematics, and how the brain works. ST Math is their pre-K–8 visual instructional program, helping teachers engage kids more deeply in math learning. (Grades pre-K–8; pricing based on total school enrollment)

This award-winning program finds and fixes learning gaps with the power of personalized learning. The three-pronged approach features personalized learning, pinpoint assessments, and an interactive classroom. (Grades K–8; pricing per student, school, and district)

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This organization is geared toward students, teachers, and families in low-income communities. The program features school workshops, instructional coaching, and professional learning communities. (Grades K–12; try limited Family Playlists for free, request consultation for pricing)

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Math games make learning fun! Focus on specific skills, target interventions, and make assessment easy. (Grades K–8; teachers can try six games for free, subscription unlocks more games and features)

Tang Math strives to provide unparalleled math lessons for students as well as professional development for in-service teachers. Find games and puzzles, plus other resources like free downloads, worksheets/word problems, and math centers. (Grades K–5; free)

Woot Math offers adaptive practice for teaching rational numbers and related topics, such as fractions, decimals, and ratios. (Grades 3–7; free tier for teachers, additional features available for extra cost)

Personalized math curriculum that includes digital lessons and small-group instruction. Also has online modules, workbooks and answer keys, and professional development. (Grades K–5; free for individual teachers and classrooms)

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Engaging animated learning videos, games, quizzes, and activities to encourage kids on their unique learning path. (Grades pre-K–8; teacher, school, and district pricing available, as well as parent or homeschool options)

Teachers prep an assignment, students work on their devices, everybody gives feedback, and the teacher sees it all! (Grades K–12; free basic plan, Pro accounts unlock more features)

A website that allows teachers to assign math practice content to their students. Students get immediate feedback as they complete the problems. (Middle school+; free, with premium school and district plans available)

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An online graphing calculator that students can use for free. Includes a teacher-centric activity builder for creating digital math activities. (Grades 9–12; free)

Save money by using virtual math manipulatives like geoboards, base-10 blocks, 10-frames, pattern blocks, and more. (Grades K–12; free)

An award-winning series of math apps that harness the power of digital tools to create a better, deeper, more fun learning experience. Blogs such as “Making Math Social” and “Saying No to Math Anxiety” are included as resources for teachers and parents. (Grades K–6; priced per app, with free trials for teachers and bulk pricing for schools)

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Use hip-hop to teach math! Flocabulary offers songs, activities, and videos. (Grades K–12; teacher, school, and district pricing available)

Upload your own materials or build them from scratch, find something pre-made, act on live responses, and track student growth over time. (Grades K–12; free, premium subscription unlocks additional features)

Another graphing calculator for functions, geometry, algebra, calculus, statistics, and 3D math, along with a variety of math resources. (Grades 9–12; free)

You know it. Your kids love it. Why not use it to teach math? Engage your students with this game-based classroom-response system played by the whole class in real time. Multiple-choice questions are projected on the screen, then students answer with their smartphone, tablet, or computer. (Grades K–12; free, Kahoot+ AccessPass subscription offers premium content)

Math Central

Run by the University of Regina in Canada, this site offers free resources for math teachers and their students, including a database where users can search for the answers to math questions. Their “Mathematics With a Human Face” page includes information about careers in mathematics as well as profiles of mathematicians. (Grades K–12; free)

Teachers know that one of the best ways to make sure learning sticks is through song. Numberock features ad-free music videos of songs about math topics, like fractions, money, and integers, produced by an Emmy Award–winning studio. Numberock also has anchor charts, worksheets, comics, games, and more. (Grades K–5; limited free videos, monthly subscription offers six-month free trial)

Transform presentations into classroom conversations with Pear Deck for Google Slides. Effortlessly build engaging instructional content, formative assessments, and interactive questions. (Grades K–12; basic access is free, premium subscriptions unlock more features)

Take a photo of an equation, and this site will explain how to solve it, step-by-step. It even explains different options to get to the answer. Students can use it for help with homework, and teachers can incorporate it in their own lesson plans. (Grades 6+, free with premium options available)

TeacherTube

Think of this site like YouTube but specifically for teachers and schools. Find videos created by other teachers, and upload your own to share. (Grades K–12; free)

These are some of the best interactive math websites and provide students with instruction and independent practice.

Arithmetic Four

Two users play a game in which each player tries to connect four game pieces in a row (like Connect 4). The players answer math questions to connect the pieces. The teacher chooses how much time each player has to answer, the level of difficulty, and the type of math problem. (Grades 2–8; free)

Coolmath Games

Yes, math games can be cool! Check out the hundreds of games on this site and on Coolmath4kids . (Grades K–12; free with ads, premium subscription removes ads and provides extra features)

Figure This!

Figure This is a site designed to encourage families to practice math together. It includes fun and engaging math games and high-quality challenges. It even offers challenges in Spanish. (Grades 6–8; free)

Funbrain has been helping students learn key math concepts and develop crucial skills since 1997. Students can choose from a slew of games. Why is it one of the best math websites? It’s all free! (Grades pre-K–8; free)

Get the Math

Get the Math is about algebra in the real world. Students see how professionals use math in music, fashion, video games, restaurants, basketball, and special effects. Then take on interactive challenges related to those careers. (Grades 6–12; free)

Your students will love fun math games like Speed Math Deluxe, Mystery Math, Place Value Game, and more. (Grades 3–12; free)

A popular game-based site for online math-learning resources. It covers algebra, geometry, statistics, and more. (Grades K–12; schools can contact them for a quote; parents pay per child)

Math Game Time

There are dozens of games to explore here, organized by grade and subject. (Grades pre-K–7; free)

MATHHelp.com

In-depth lessons with videos, guided practice, interactive self-tests, and more. (Grades 5–12; monthly or yearly subscription required)

Math Is Fun

Find general information along with games and practice for a variety of math subjects, including geometry, algebra, calculus, physics, and more. (Grades 6–12; free)

Math Playground

More than 425 math games, logic puzzles, and brain workouts for students to practice their math skills. (Grades 1–6; free with ads, Premium removes ads and provides extra features)

Most learners do best when they can see a problem walk-through, step-by-step. This site features multiple example problems, with walk-throughs by three separate instructors (including one in Spanish). They offer some basic math but are focused on advanced subjects from algebra on up. (Grades 6–12; free)

Thousands of original math games, workshops, and practice modules, as well as math printables. (Grades 1–6; monthly or yearly subscription required)

Multiplication.com

Need to master your multiplication facts? This is the site to try! Fun games and memory-building strategies will help students tackle this key skill. (Grades 2–6; free, with Premium membership available for extra features)

Numeracy Ninjas

This is a free intervention tool designed to fill gaps in students’ mental calculation skills and empower them with number fluency. Students can earn ninja belts of different colors for their skill level. (Grades 2–8; free)

PBS Math Club

From PBS Learning Media, this is one of the best math websites for middle schoolers. They love this entertaining video blog. Not only does each episode cover Common Core Standards, it makes math learning culturally relevant with pop-culture references. (Grades 6–9; free)

Students can create study flash cards, play educational games, practice skills, collaborate with other students, and more. (Grades 5–12; free, QuizletPlus provides additional features)

Another resource to help students build fact fluency. Each game is tailored to students’ ability levels. (Grades 2–6; school and home licenses available)

Sheppard Software

Tons of fun and educational online math games, from basic operations to algebra and geometry. (Grades K–6; free)

Simple math test activities for teachers and students, from beginning math operations to calculus. You set the skill level, number of problems, and time limit. A report, which tallies right and wrong answers, is provided after each quiz. (Grades 3–12; free)

Toy Theater

How would your students like to learn multiplication while shooting hoops? They can do that and more at Toy Theater, which teaches early math concepts through game-based learning. (Grades K–5; free)

Wolfram MathWorld

Upper-level math students will appreciate the no-frills information that’s easy to find on this site. Get overviews and see examples of advanced math subjects. (High school+; free)

XtraMath is like a daily math vitamin. An interactive online tool that helps students practice and master basic arithmetic facts, it’s quick and easy to use. Weekly emails provide progress reports for teachers and parents. (Grades K–8; free, with premium licenses that offer additional features)

These are some of the best math websites that provide lesson-planning resources and professional-development materials.

Get differentiated, standards-aligned math practice problems that you can generate, assign, and evaluate online. (Grades 6–8; limited free plan with paid plans available)

Casio has a lot more to offer math teachers besides calculators. Their Worldwide Education Site is packed with free resources like worksheets, activities, teaching videos, how-to videos, font sets, and software options.

Citizen Math

Formerly known as Mathalicious, this site provides supplemental math lessons. Experience an immersive, participatory approach that makes learning and teaching more rewarding. (Grades 6–12; monthly or yearly subscriptions available)

Common Core Sheets

Find math worksheets for just about any area of study. Use them for planning lessons, review, and independent work. (Grades K–6; free)

Education.com

Here’s a reliable site for worksheets, games, and even lessons plans. They cover a variety of subjects, with lots of math options to choose from. (Grades K–8; limited free access, monthly subscriptions unlock all content)

This platform allows teachers to create technology-enhanced online math assessments from a huge question bank. (Grades K–12; free teacher accounts)

Kuta Software

For teachers of pre-algebra through calculus. Create the math worksheets you need, exactly how you want them, in minutes. You can also create customizable homework, quizzes, and tests. (Grades 8–12; free two-week trial, then single-user and site licenses available)

Mashup Math

A creative solution that aims to revive students’ passion and interest in math. Mashup Math has a library of 100+ math video lessons as well as a YouTube channel that features new math video lessons every week. A free e-book of math challenges is also available. (Grades K–8; free)

Math-Aids.com

Dynamically created math worksheets for students, teachers, and parents. (Grades K–10; free with ads, paid membership removes ads)

MathsBot.com

Tools for math teachers, including bell ringers and drills, math tools and manipulatives, question generators, printables, and puzzles. (Grades K–12; free with ads)

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM)

This National Science Foundation–supported project provides a large library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives and concept tutorials for math instruction. (Grades K–12; free)

TeacherMade

Convert all of your paper assignments, quizzes, homework, etc., into digital activities delivered online. (Grades K–12; free basic version, Pro plan adds multiple extra features)

TeacherVision

For a very affordable monthly fee, gain access to thousands of resources created by teachers like you. They cover every topic and every grade level. (Grades K–12; monthly subscription)

Topmarks is one of the best U.K.-based math websites that provides a database of resources for teachers as well as online learning games for students. (Grades pre-K–8; free)

Varsity Learning

The Varsity Learning Online Math Management System is one of the best math websites because it provides course templates, assignments, an online teacher’s assistant, and thousands of practice problems so you can get organized, save assignments and videos on the web, share resources, and incorporate technology in your classroom. (Grades: 7–12; free)

Virtual Nerd

More than 1,500 video lessons ranging from middle-grade math through Algebra 2. (Grades 6–12; free)

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The “get-your-ex-back” industry is booming. it really shouldn’t be..

Benny Lichtenwalner got married young. The father of four—who spoke to me from his Kansas City home in a salt-and-pepper beard and a pair of translucent, milky-white eyeglasses, and with the tiny outline of a heart inked at the tip of his right cheekbone—was raised in a devoutly Catholic family. His parents encouraged him to settle down with his first wife fresh out of high school, and perhaps unsurprisingly, Lichtenwalner was already divorced by his mid-30s. That was when he met the woman of his dreams. “She’s the polar opposite from my wife. She’s the fun tattoo girl, while my wife was rigid,” said Lichtenwalner. “And then she just crushes me. She breaks up with me out of nowhere. Cheats on me. The whole thing.”

The heartbreak brought Lichtenwalner to his knees, and he resolved to try anything to win the “fun tattoo girl” back. So he turned to the internet and sought the advice of so-called get-your-ex-back coaches—YouTubers, authors, and podcasters who have made their careers in the large and mostly uncertified world of breakup rehabilitation. These coaches offer their clients a proprietary set of psychological and rhetorical strategies that, they claim, will cause a former lover to return to the grasp of their dumped partner, restoring the relationship.

Lichtenwalner was particularly fond of Coach Corey Wayne, one of the original innovators in the field, whose marquee self-help video, viewed more than 1.6 million times, is titled “ 7 Principles to Get an Ex Back .” Lichtenwalner followed Wayne’s advice to the letter, and sure enough, “fun tattoo girl” orbited back into his life. Naturally, two months later, the pair had broken up all over again, but Lichtenwalner became obsessed with the process of romance restoration. In 2018, he decided to get into the business himself.

“I walked the path of a lot of this stuff, and I realized I could help other people,” said Lichtenwalner, who is now 43, and is remarried. “I got on TikTok, and started putting out all these videos, and I realized that the ones about getting your ex back tend to do well. So I switched up my whole brand to be focused on that.”

Today, Lichtenwalner, who goes by “Coachbennydating” on TikTok, has over 280,000 followers. He offers free advice on his page, where he distills general-use relationship axioms into bite-size, social media–friendly clips. In one recent video, Lichtenwalner— recording shirtless from a white-sand beach —outlines the “No. 1 one skill” needed to reattract an ex: The “emotional discipline” to refrain from overindulgences like double texting. But for a more curated experience, Lichtenwalner offers one-on-one coaching sessions, via a 45-minute Zoom call, at $350 a pop, where he promises to craft a more personalized recovery plan for a client’s romantic disaster. If those clients desire even more access to Coach Benny, patrons can shell out $499 for his personal phone number, allowing them to send two “500-character inquiries” about the current status of their breakup per day. This approach has been lucrative. Lichtenwalner claims to be making “multiple six figures” from his coaching.

“No more feeling lost,” reads Coach Benny’s website, outlining the texting plan. “Take control of your relationship and navigate any challenges that come your way.”

Breakups are a foundational part of life. They happen all the time. A couple might be unable to find equitable ground on a variety of existential questions—parenthood, faith, lifestyle—and call it quits. Or two people can slowly grow distant from each other, without either party being the sole author of the discontent, until they mercifully concede that the love has flickered out. Sometimes, a relationship can detonate in spectacles of pure id—ravenous infidelity, screaming arguments, sobbing in bar bathrooms, 200 texts per hour—eventually leaving both ends of the partnership feeling raw, extreme, and ideally, free . The point here is that relationships often come to an end for a good reason, but coaches like Lichtenwalner believe that with the correct approach, anyone who’s been recently dumped can devise a way to mend even the grisliest wounds.

But can anyone truly optimize their way back into the good graces of an ex? Breakups are an amalgam of soft, emotional truths. Can they really be cracked like a math problem with the help of good coaching? Lichtenwalner’s clients, who are all invariably stinging from the hallucinatory pain of a life-defining heartache, would certainly like to believe so.

“It’s at that price because that’s what people pay,” said Lichtenwalner, when asked if he possessed any hesitation about charging such a hefty cost for his services. “My schedule is packed back-to-back all week. Think of the worst breakup you’ve had. Would you try to solve it for the price of a PlayStation? I think if their ex said, ‘Hey, give me a PlayStation and we’ll be back together,’ they’d do it. I can sleep at night just fine. Because I love that I’m helping people.”

It is difficult to know how many get-your-ex-back coaches are working on the internet. There are a handful of big names in the sector, all of whom command sizable followings on social media and loom over the smaller players. Brad Browning, who advertises himself as the “Ex Back Geek,” has over 600,000 subscribers on YouTube , while Dan Bacon, with 431,000 subscribers, promotes a $297 Get Your Ex Back Super System, which includes a video detailing how to achieve “Ultimate Makeup Sex.” The majority of get-your-ex-back mentors tend to be men, though there are some women in the field, and the coaches themselves claim to work with clients of all genders. (Lichtenwalner said that his demographics skew slightly toward women. “Most women want a man’s perspective on things because they’re talking mostly to their friends about their relationship,” he said.)

In general, life coaching—in which dubiously certified experts offer for-profit consultations on the touchy-feely facets of ill-defined “self-improvement”—is in the midst of a legitimate boom period. The New York Times reported that there has been a 54 percent increase in the number of professional coaches between 2019 and 2022 . It’s a fair assumption that other, more specific avenues of mentorship might have seen similar growth.

The prices for get-your-ex-back coaching are notoriously expensive across the board. Lichtenwalner’s premiums are actually a tick cheaper compared with some of the other relationship coaches on social media. Lee Wilson, a 44-year-old from Tennessee, runs MyExBackCoach.com. A session with him comes in at $579 for a 70-minute call. “Coach Lee,” as he’s better known on the internet, tells me he got his start in this field at a Christian marriage counseling nonprofit, where he was tasked with the rehabilitation of couples who were considering a divorce. Around that time he also developed, and then sold, a dating site in the early 2000s, and he figured a leap toward a more secular brand of relationship advice was within his expertise. So, Wilson made his way to YouTube. He uploaded a video called “What Your Ex Is Thinking During No Contact” in 2018 , where he imagines the satisfying second guesses that might be running through the head of a former partner in the aftermath of a dumping. It racked up more than 2 million views, and shortly afterward, Wilson started offering his own courses.

“[An ex] will reach out with something casual like, ‘Just wanted to see how you were doing,’ ” he said, in that video, outlining how someone can slyly direct a separation toward reconstitution. “Tell them that you’re having a great week. … That’s how they can feel the same loss that you felt when they broke up with you.”

Wilson believes that every breakup is unique, and each is buoyed by a distinct flavor of conjugal strife. But he’s also confident that there are a few objective maxims that, when learned and deployed, can help a wide swath of people get their exes back. Chief among these is the principle of “no contact,” which is also endorsed by Lichtenwalner, and practically every other relationship coach on the internet. Essentially, in cases where an ex claims that their feelings have faded, Wilson encourages his clients to systematically shut off all streams of communication with them, while simultaneously directing their time in singlehood toward personal enrichment—trusting that a boost in their own self-esteem will eventually remind a former partner of the goodness they’ve abandoned.

“They see that you’re not going to chase them down, which prevents them from running further away,” explained Wilson. “And when they do start doubting their decision to break up with you, it’s easier for them to reach out, because they haven’t attempted to escape you.”

Versions of this basic doctrine are plastered all over Wilson’s YouTube channel, essentially repeating the same idea in slightly different ways. There are videos titled, “Stages of No Contact for Your Ex,” “Mistakes You Must Not Make During No Contact,” and “Psychology of No Contact on the Dumper.” Occasionally he delves into stranger and more conspiratorial territory, while still hitting the basic notes. Earlier this month, Lee published his take on how to win back a “brainwashed ex,” a condition he blames, in part, on peer pressure put on a former partner by their single friends who “make an effort to destroy a relationship.” Taken together, the catalog reads like an attempt to squeeze down the vast cerebral mysteries of a breakup into a parsable formula—to simplify kaleidoscopic pain with black-and-white sensibility.

The problem with this is that “no contact” is not exactly exclusive information. The method has its own Reddit community , its own Quora threads , and its own Forbes explainers , and I think I speak for pretty much everyone who’s ever been dumped when I say that a label-free variation of “go no contact” is the standard advice meted out by friends and family whenever we must recover from heartbreak. It raises the question: What exactly are people paying for, when they shell out nearly $600 to Coach Lee?

“I put so much energy into the calls. I usually go over the allotted time,” said Wilson. “I bring a lot to the table as far as helping someone to really see clearly when they’re in a situation where it’s very difficult to see anything but the pain. And that’s a vulnerable place to be. They think $570 is a cheap price to pay to alleviate the pain and win a person back. They want to win. They don’t want to lose. I’ve had people say things about the price, and my opinion is, ‘Well, I’m not making you do it.’ “

Both Wilson and Lichtenwalner are adamant that the time they spend with their clients over the phone is thoughtful, well-considered, and empathetic. They’re also steadfast that the best coaching they do is when they can speak directly to a client, one-on-one, and analyze their predicament from all angles. (“Sometimes I’ll tell them that getting their ex back isn’t worth the effort,” said Wilson. “That I think they’re better off trying to move on because of the situation.”) But Kelli Harding, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, questions whether a single-minded devotion to the rejuvenation of a lapsed relationship is the most effective way to heal from heartache. And she has concerns about the mental state a prospective client might be in when they charge their credit card a large sum for some coaching.

“A breakup can feel like your survival is at risk,” she told me. “It really is on that biological, physiological level. And if you suddenly have someone promising you a way out, it can be tempting to lay down the cash. Being in a situation where you feel under threat, there’s definitely some risk of … I’m cautious to use the word exploitation. But you’re definitely in a vulnerable period.”

Harding’s fear lines up with the experience of Jay Pimentel, a 27-year-old from Maui, who hired the services of Coach Lee last year to heal from what he describes as a torrid, three-month-long “situationship.”

“I ended up following every breakup coach imaginable on TikTok and watching every single video that could help me in my situation,” said Pimentel, recalling the fallout of his breakup. “I felt so desperate.”

Pimentel organized a free 15-minute consultation with Wilson, who recommended that he purchase his “emergency breakup kit.” It’s a service on his website that promises to contain an “ex-return formula,” brimming with videos and self-help guides, to “reignite the spark again” in their former lover. The large red button, leading to the payment portal, is marked with the words, “WIN HER BACK!” Pimentel said it cost him $60. He made the purchase, dove into the material, and pretty soon afterward, began to feel like he’d just been scammed.

“The general thrust is just, ‘Go no contact and work on yourself,’ which is already posted on all of their videos for free, and is just a mature response in general. But it’s not worth a $60 price tag,” said Pimentel.

Pimentel ended up using the no contact method to no avail. “It ended up being just an old tall tale,” he said, of its ineffectiveness. Pimentel has since moved on. He’s healed from the breakup and is enjoying a renewed sense of growth and self-knowledge—which is the silver lining of all heartache. But he continues to harbor ill will for all the dating coaches who inculcated a false sense of hope in him.

“These coaches prey on people desperately wanting to get their partner back, say that you ‘need’ to pay for their services, and that they will ‘make a plan’ for you,” said Pimentel. “But in reality we can’t control others. We can only control ourselves.”

Honestly, Pimentel was lucky to only spend $60. Another former get-your-ex-back client, who is 28 and asked to be kept anonymous, spent a total of $1,400 on a dating coach when he was 20 and languishing in the psychic destruction of his first major breakup.

“I didn’t get her back. No amount of coaching would have helped anyways, in hindsight,” he said. “I was pretty much willing to pay anything to invest in my happiness. Which, again, was pretty impulsive and felt kind of predatory, since relationship coaches know people are not thinking straight and rationally.”

For what it’s worth, Wilson reiterated to me that he never promises his clients that the advice he offers will be effective. “The other person is their own person, they have free will, and I’m not a mind reader,” he said. Lichtenwalner, meanwhile, argued that while he is confident that the coaching is sound, practical, and battle-tested, he has little faith that his clients will wield it correctly.

“The advice that I have to give is so emotionally disciplined that I do know that a lot of people aren’t going to be able to implement it,” he said. “I have to disconnect from the results in many cases.”

This all gets us back to the central question in the get-your-ex-back industry: Can a breakup be truly mended with the designs of a carefully orchestrated psyops campaign? It makes you consider how profiteers have sold the reassurance of calculable logic within the mercurial chaos of romance for ages. Lichtenwalner and Wilson both bring to mind the pickup artists of the mid-2000s, who advertised a similar set of pseudo-anthropological nightclub theories ( negging , approach anxiety , and so on) that, the pickup artists said, would increase the number of women a man could seduce during a night out. Naturally, Lichtenwalner tells me he is familiar with pickup artist dictums and regards his get-your-ex-back turn to be a nicer, more wholesome interpretation of those same dating schemes.

“The pickup artists were operating from a manipulative perspective. Everyone got a bad taste in their mouth from the cheesy pickup artists. But a good pickup artist is just somebody that learned charisma,” said Lichtenwalner. “There’s a tasteful way to have a charismatic effect on people, and that’s important for the guy who’s lost his wife, and his kids, and the empire they have together.”

It is nice to believe that human behavior could be so predictable, in the same way it is nice to believe that, one day, your ex will miraculously shed all of the points of tension that tore them away from you in the first place, leaving the two of you fully renewed. Unfortunately, just like a breakup itself, sometimes you need to live through the pain in order to accept the truth.

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Alina Kralya tinkers with a microcontroller for one of her computer science projects at American River College. Nearby, a group of other first-generation college students sit in green and blue chairs, chatting about their math homework. It’s a typical scene at this community college space for students in the Math, Engineering, and Science Achievement program, called MESA.

Two years ago, Kralya was in her first year at an engineering university in Ukraine when the Russian invasion and the subsequent war uprooted her family. After moving around Eastern Europe, they sought refuge in sunny Sacramento with $300 in their pockets. 

Between language barriers, a brand new academic system and trying to make sense of trigonometry, it hasn’t been an easy journey for the 20-year-old, who dreams of going into robotics. When she needs tutoring or just a quiet place to study away from her younger siblings, she comes to the MESA center.

She’s still buzzing with excitement about a recent conference for female engineers she attended in San Jose. The program covered her entrance fee and transportation costs, and staff helped her set up her LinkedIn profile for the event. “Listening to all those successful ladies in STEM, oh my gosh, it was so nice,” she said.

California allotted millions of dollars in 2022 to create the same program at community colleges across the state. Currently, 91 out of 115 campuses have programs established, with three more set to create one next year. The state hopes the expansion will reduce barriers to STEM jobs for “underserved and underrepresented” students. As the initiative rolls out statewide, questions remain about how long the funding will last, and how the programs can track how well they’re working.  

To enroll in the program, students must be both low-income and a first-generation college student. The students’ parents can’t hold a bachelor’s degree in any country to meet the first-generation requirement. 

Read More: Who is a first-generation college student? California colleges, universities can’t agree.

Less than 1 in 5 community college students in California who want to transfer to a university succeed in doing so within four years , according to a report from the Public Policy Institute of California. For Black and Latino students, transfer pathways are even weaker: 13%  for Black students and 16% for Latinos.

Beyond bolstering transfer rates, the goals for MESA include increasing representation of Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans in STEM industries. In 2021, 9% of STEM workers nationwide were Black, while 15% were Hispanic or Latino, according to a report from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. 

“The community needs people to be in these positions as doctors, as scientists, as engineers, as computer scientists who actually understand the community that is being served,” said Edrina Rashidi, the officer of advocacy for the Community College Association of MESA Directors, who recently lobbied for more legislative support for the programs. 

Students in the program have access to a range of support, such as tutoring, academic counseling and help finding internships or scholarships. The physical centers offer computer equipment, textbooks and a place to study. Program directors work closely with students to connect them to resources. 

As of fall 2023, 4,279 students were enrolled at a MESA program on their campus, according to state data. 

State funds expansion of MESA programs systemwide

Four years ago, MESA programs had a $2.5 million statewide budget. After lobbying efforts from the MESA directors association, the program now has a $39.4 million statewide budget and was written into the California Education Code . Over 50 colleges have taken advantage of the funds in the last two years, nearly tripling the number of programs from 34 to 94.

Each college received a total of $428,576 for the 2022-23 school year, in the form of a grant from the state. This past year and every year through 2027 they’ll get at least $280,000 each. However, the state chancellor’s office expects colleges to eventually start covering some of the costs, so that the programs can stay afloat if the state money disappears, according to the statewide MESA project monitor Stephanie Ricks-Albert.

The state grants will be up for renewal in 2027. Rashidi said the organization will continue to look for ways to support the program’s stability long term. 

The program also exists in different forms across the state and nation. In California, many universities and high schools have MESA programs or clubs that are overseen by the UC Office of the President with a budget of about $7 million. 

Inside a MESA program

Computers, STEM textbooks, whiteboards, a free-to-use printer and a coffee machine occupy the MESA center at American River College, housed on the first floor of the sleek new Diane Bryant STEM Innovation Center. A line of university pennants hangs from one wall; on another, three astronauts smile from a poster that reads, “FROM MESA TO NASA.”

Over 200 students have access to this space. It’s where tutors like Marco Alaniz, who is also a MESA student studying computer science, can often be found. He’s had a love for programming since his mom bought him a computer as a little kid, but he struggled when he started college the first time over 20 years ago, and ultimately dropped out. 

“I just wasn’t prepared,” Alaniz said. Because his parents never went to college, they didn’t have the experience to help him navigate school or teach him time management habits. “So really, growing up, I was kind of on my own on that, just kind of figuring things out.”

After about 15 years of working odd jobs to pay the bills, Alaniz enrolled in American River College in 2019 to give his computer science degree another shot. For the past year he’s tutored MESA students. It doesn’t pay enough for him to quit his job so he can take classes full time, but he really enjoys breaking down difficult concepts for his fellow classmates, and it’s even made him consider a career in education.

Samuel Morrison, the college’s interim MESA project lead, explained that the cost of living is one the biggest challenges for the low-income students he serves. He helps connect them to scholarships and internships, as the programs are required to do. One creative way the college has found to financially assist its students is to create paid projects with faculty mentorship and research opportunities students can apply for.

“So students are finding, OK, this is a stipend that I can use to pay for gas to get to school, or I can use to supplement food costs,” Morrison said.

Still, the college lacks a designated MESA academic counselor. Kralya, the Ukrainian student, explained that the general counselors she’s seen are not always familiar with STEM-specific transfer programs, which can differ between universities. Adding financial aid to the mix makes things even more complicated; Kralya and Alaniz both had to declare multiple majors to get certain transfer requirements covered by financial aid.

“That’s why we have to find a really good counselor who can tell us this, because this information is not listed anywhere,” Kralya said. 

The state requires the programs to have designated counselors, but getting an in-house counselor can be a lengthy and complicated process, Morrison said. He hopes to have one on board by the spring of 2025.

Students can also sign up for field trips, which include conferences and college tours. Students this semester visited the Sacramento State University planetarium, attended the Women in Engineering conference in San Jose, and toured UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz.

At programs across the state, students who are either low-income or first-generation, but not both, can still access certain resources, such as tutoring and counseling, but can’t go on field trips or receive paid research opportunities. There are currently 1,345 of them enrolled systemwide, called ASEM students, or “Friends of MESA” at some colleges.

Growing pains as programs roll out systemwide

Two years after new funding opened the doors for more programs, many still need to hire staff, find the required minimum 500 square feet of space to house the center, or recruit students to officially get off the ground. 

Just hiring a program director to lead the program can be a lengthy process. A year and a half after receiving its grant, the program at Laney College in Oakland is still without a director. The college’s dean of math and sciences, Inger Stark, appointed math instructor Kyla Oh as the program’s faculty lead for the program in the interim.

“It has definitely slowed us down,” said Stark. The bulk of the work falls on Oh, who teaches fewer credits so that she has time to focus on the program. Stark squeezes the administrative side of the program into her workday as a dean. 

Right now, the state money covers the entire program, which launched in April with an initial cohort of 14 students. Stark is determined to ensure the program stays afloat through any changes in the funding, but she’s spent enough time in her community college district to have seen many “beautiful initiatives” get weeded out.

“It is heartbreaking,” she said. “A huge amount of work can fall on the ground.”

The need for more granular program data 

Tracking MESA programs in a comprehensive way is not easy. Some basic data is available through public dashboards, but directors want easy access to more in-depth information about their programs to help make sure they’re meeting their goals. 

“We actually have no way of measuring our success, still, with the Chancellor’s Office,” said Rashidi, the lead advocate for MESA directors. 

Basic information, such as the total number of MESA students in the system, is available through the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office public data tool , DataMart. However, that information isn’t broken down by race, gender or major. Granular data could give program directors the ability to quickly check if their efforts to reach students from underserved backgrounds are working.

Limited information on MESA student success is publicly available. Of the MESA students who first attempted to complete a transfer-level math course in the 2021-22 school year, 79% passed within one year, compared to a 54% completion rate for the general student body, according to the Transfer-Level English and Math Completion Dashboard . 

CalMatters requested MESA transfer statistics and racial data from the Chancellor’s Office. According to the data , about 62% of MESA students were Hispanic or Latino as of December 2023, while 4% were Black.

To count transfers , the Chancellor’s Office counted students who were in MESA in one school year, and then enrolled at a university the next year. By this metric, MESA programs collectively transferred 1,010 students after the 2021-22 school year, including 563 Hispanic or Latino students and 23 Black students.

Nearly half of MESA students enroll at a university within four years of taking their first community college class, as of 2017, the most recent year complete data is available. Students were considered to be MESA students if they participated in the program at any point during their first three years in the community college system. 

The Chancellor’s Office will analyze the status of the programs at the end of the current grant cycle, and the results could affect how much money programs will receive in the future, according to an emailed statement from Melissa Villarin, a spokesperson for California Community Colleges. Any additional funding would be based on “program and campus metrics,” according to the statement.

This story was updated to more accurately explain the advocacy plans of the Community College Association of MESA Directors.

Khan is a fellow with the College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. CalMatters higher education coverage is supported by a grant from the College Futures Foundation.

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