MyMathLab is an online interactive and educational system designed by Pearson Education

Pearson Education

Pearson Education is an international educational publishing and technology company providing textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools...

 to accompany its published math textbooks. It covers courses from basic math through calculus and statistics, as well as math for business and future educators. Pearson designed MyMathLab to respond to the needs of instructors and students who wanted more opportunity for practice, immediate feedback, and automated grading. Pearson Education stated that MyMathLab has helped more than 9 million students at 1,900 colleges in the United States. According to a Pearson survey, 80% of more than 3,800 students reported that MyMathLab has helped them to succeed.

CourseCompass

Pearson's MyLab and Mastering series consists of more than 70 online interactive and educational system in a variety of different subjects. Some features of MyMathLab (and MyStatLab) specifically for students' are homework, quizzes, tests, full eText, and multimedia tutorials. For instructors' benefits, MyMathLab records and evaluates students' learning progress and time spent on assignments. Instructors may set up a customized MyMathLab course.

Instructors Advantages

• Choose from a wide variety of assignment options for homework, quizzes, and tests, including time limits, proctoring, and maximum attempts allowed.
• Create custom problems and assignments that are not in the textbooks.
• All assignments are automatically graded by the system and instantly saved into a gradebook.
• Course content is based on the instructor’s choice of textbook and customized course materials.
• Share course content with other instructors and reuse all the course materials for next school term.
• Allow other instructors to copy course materials and establish a standardized syllabus.

Students Advantages

• Access to unlimited problems and exercises for the course. Nearly all problems are generated algorithmically.
• Learning tools include example problems, guided solutions, feedback for incorrect answers, animations, videos and the eText.
• Simulation tests and quizzes to help students in preparation for the actual exams.
• Complete access to full eBook for the course's textbook as well as online lectures in videos and animations.
• Organize a customized study plan based on their own progress and needs.
• Offers additional one-on-one tutoring from Pearson Tutor Services.

Effectiveness

Fayetteville State University

Fayetteville State University

Fayetteville State University is a historically black, regional university located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States. FSU is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina System and is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.-Academics:The primary...

 conducted a study on whether using an online interactive system such as MyMathLab would increase a student's academic performance compared to the traditional paper-based homework system. The study was done in a college algebra course. The result showed that those who pass the course using MyMathLab is 70% while using traditional homework system is 49%.

A study done by North Georgia College and State University

North Georgia College and State University

North Georgia College & State University is a four-year public university located in Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia. Founded as North Georgia Agricultural College in 1873, it is the second oldest co-educational institution in the state. The university is renowned for its ROTC program, and is...

shows that most students found MyMathLab's video tutoring feature useful. Students expressed that video tutoring helps them get ahead of their peers who attend regular class lectures. Some students argue that most of MyMathLab's videos only cover basic concepts when they demand more videos on advanced materials . Another review claims that some tutors are not as easily understood as others.