“The location is actually better, it’s more to the center, like more in the middle of everything”, said Maren Zobott, a math teacher at South High. The changes to the Math Center this year had positive and negative effects to it. Due to scheduling, classroom sizes, and preferences, the location of the math center was changed from “the corner of the building” as Zobott said, to room 235.

According to South students, the location does not affect them in any way. “Having it opened is a good thing, and having it closed is bad” said math teacher Stephanie Woldum.

In the past years, the Math Center was opened all day during the school day and closed after school, which also changed this year. It is now opened all day throughout the school day, except for 3rd hour, also for scheduling reasons.

The negative side of this is that lots of students have study hall during that hour and aren’t able to get math help then. This is also frustrating to 3rd hour math teachers because they don’t have the opportunity to send their students there to take math tests, do math work, and get individual help that they might need. Now that it is open after school, math tutors and teachers can volunteer to stay and help students with math work, tests, and homework.

The math center opened at South high about 3 years ago, and Woldum was the one that made the proposal. The math center has been a very useful resource for students throughout the years: they receive the individual attention they want, and are also helped with all types of math work.

The teachers active in the Math Center have organized a check in system where if you are missing class to be in the math center, your teachers will get an e-mail letting them know where you are.

“It’s a really quiet space, and there’s people that can help you there, not just adults but students will help you too.” said sophomore Sierra Mitchell, who has been there to retake tests.

“It’s cool that other students help you and not just teachers… [You] get different opinions on how to do stuff.” Said freshman Emma Scheulz.

Although the new changes in the Math Center have inconvenienced some students and teachers, they have also benefitted from the changes and will continue to get help from the Math Center.