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Pairing intensive math instruction with emotional and social support in a summer program

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Description

Math Corps pairs an academic component with a relational one: its founders' "primary goal for the camp was to support the emotional and social needs of the students in Detroit," and they used their math-teaching backgrounds to add "high-quality math instruction" to that support. The pattern is an intensive summer camp format in which mentoring and positive influences are delivered alongside substantive instruction in a school subject, rather than as separate programming.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Staff with subject-matter teaching backgrounds who can deliver high-quality instruction while also attending to students' emotional and social needs.

Constraints

  • The article describes this pattern as implemented in a summer camp for middle school students in a single city; it does not claim the pattern generalizes to other settings or grade levels.

Target Learners

  • middle school students who could benefit from mentoring and positive influences

Learning Goals

  • mathematics achievement
  • social and emotional development

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Barbara Harris, Lindsay Fox. (2022). Participation in Math Corps Increases College Enrollment. Mathematica. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/participation-in-math-corps-increases-college-enrollment
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title Pairing intensive math instruction with emotional and social support in a summer program
description Math Corps pairs an academic component with a relational one: its founders' "primary goal for the camp was to support the emotional and social needs of the students in Detroit," and they used their math-teaching backg...
status review
generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-09
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sources 1 — barbara-harris-2022

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