Welcome to Learn Across Math, a website dedicated to unique "extra" insights to help you think more globally and also more deeply about how we learn mathematics. My sincere hope for you is that some of the insights and strategies I offer on this site may revolutionize how you think about math and greatly improve your performance so you can accomplish your dreams.

A number of years ago, when I was the Math Coordinator at a local university, my wife was working at a large insurance service center that employed over 600 workers. Most of these workers were women. I was not surprised to hear from my wife that when any of her co-workers stated that they would like to go to college they also said that it was their fear of math that stopped them.

Learning math is a very complicated process that does not come easily for many people. Learning math is also sequential and builds strongly on prior knowledge. Therefore, all it takes is a couple of weak teachers in a row and most students are sunk. The task of learning or re-learning later on seems insurmountable.

However, all it takes is one or two world-shattering insights and everything can change.

What I offer on this site is many strategies and perspectives that I think you're going to find are quite different from any you've seen before. Look around, try a few of my reports or books–some are absolutely free–and find the dynamite that can blast you into a new level of math performance and confidence.

-Richard H. Porr, Ph.D.

Learn Across Math was created to:

Explore divergent thinking related to how to think about math across grade levels and subject matters

Identify foundational elements of learning math

Discover how foundational elements are interconnected

Create meaning that extends across multiple grade levels and subdivisions of math

Support math students, parents and teachers in new pathways to learn across math

We are still in development, but feel free to explore and please return to see what we've added.

Look for specific strategies for critical concepts that often stop College Algebra students from succeeding on our Boulder Busters page.