Welcome to Way to Succeed!

We offer an easy-to-use mini-course for helping first-year college students LEARN HOW TO LEARN MATH and other STEM content.

Our mini-course is all about learning, so it can be used with any course, from remedial math to calculus, from chemistry to physics.

Student Focused

  • Students learn how to learn through short readings and quizzes and interacting with our proprietary diagnostic and prescriptive learning assessments.
  • Learners develop increased responsibility and independence.
  • Students advance their skills in metacognition and self-regulation.
  • They improve their understanding of Math Anxiety and how to address it.

Easy

  • Does not impact existing curriculum or class time.
  • No extra work for instructors
  • Instructors receive reports and scored quizzes for each student.
  • Ten short once-a -week assignments for students.
  • Simple and quick readings and assessments (<15 min. to complete).

Insightful

  • Common-sense approaches to learning.
  • Practical for both student and instructors.
  • Diagnostic feedback for students.
  • Personalized and prescriptive
    recommendations for improving learning.
  • Assessments adapt to each students' strengths and
    weaknesses.

Effective

  • Long-lasting learning benefits.
  • Transferrable learning skills to other learning situations.
  • Low cost for both students and instructors.
  • Research-based.

Here's what people are saying about Way to Succeed:

From Professors:

 "I think online learning should push a lot of colleges to use such materials. This is invaluable material for the learning centers."  -Eric

 "Jane and Tom are trying to solve what I consider to be the single biggest problem in math education. I can't say enough good things about the work that they are doing."  -Sharon

 "I hope that many colleges decide to use Way to Succeed as part of their freshmen STEM courses. This seems like a good way to address these "novice learner" issues that so many people need when they get to college."  -Wayne

 "I really like how this program focuses on how the students can help themselves learn in a college class."  -Gerald

 "Oh yeah, it was super easy to set up! I'm excited to use it this semester! Thank you!!"  -Rebeka

 "I agree 100% with your statement on improving self-regulation, and I believe that this is an area where a lot of instructors (and mathematics instructors in particular) really don't have a lot of training, resources, or even good instincts."  -Alex

From Students:

 "Way to Succeed helped me better my study skills throughout the semester."  -Mandy

 "I would highly recommend that all students are required to do the WTS next semester because it is a game changer!"  -Michael

 "WTS was very helpful with my walk in Algebra and college this semester! It helped me think outside the box and to question things differently!"  -Karen

 "I just finished my 2nd test and it was really helpful. It made me think about my life and study skills that I'm working on!!!"  -Harrison