About Us

Our mission is to increase access to math support and enrichment for Teton County youth in grades K-12.

Elevate Math Wyoming was formed in February 2025 to support our local schools and community partners in providing math support and enrichment services to Teton County youth.

Elevate Math Wyoming currently operates under the fiscal sponsorship of Wyoming Stargazing. Donations to our efforts are tax deductible.

The Issues

Teton County, Wyoming suffers from a lack of equitable resources to support math education both in and out of the classroom. Yearly testing reveals consistently lower math performance scores for underserved students across all grade levels when compared to the rest of the Teton County School District (TCSD) student population. 6th grade math performance scores for all TCSD students also severely lag behind other, large Wyoming districts. Unfortunately, with market tutoring rates being upwards of $150/hr, most students seeking additional math support are priced out of the local support network.

Furthermore, the non-profit community and TCSD have highlighted a critical gap in math support and enrichment services at the elementary level. Achievement in elementary math serves a strong predictor of later academic and career success, yet there are no free, after-school options for K-12 math support and enrichment in Teton County.

At the other end of the spectrum, options for high-performing and gifted students to accelerate and access math enrichment services are also limited. TCSD offers several acceleration pathways to eligible students, yet all require significant, independent summer preparation work, with no school-funded support offered to rising 6th graders who have the first opportunity to accelerate. This process disadvantages underserved students, decreasing their likelihood of later being placed in advanced and AP math classes in high school. Further, high performing students needing additional support in advanced math classes face the same financial challenges that accompany market rate tutoring support.

With public education constantly at risk, leveraging community systems and resources represents an effective method to address these significant needs.

View some of the data here.

Our Goals

MATH SUPPORT AND ENRICHMENT FOR ALL

ROBUST ELEMENTARY PROGRAMMING

COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND MENTORSHIP

Our Approach

Elevate Math Wyoming aims to address the local need for additional math intervention support and enrichment by leveraging the skills of private math tutors, volunteers, mentors and a collaboration with the Teton County School District to provide effective and equitable math support both in and out of the classroom. We are currently fundraising to support the following proposed programming, with launch dates in October 2025:

  • Elevate Math Wyoming will train and support math tutors to offer targeted, 1-on-1 tutoring services for students in need and seeking additional support at all grade and ability levels, while also offering in-class math support in the highest needs math classrooms at the local, public TCSD middle and high schools.

  • Elevate Math Wyoming will provide, year-long elementary group support through TCSD’s “After the Bell” program, where students will practice foundational math skills while playing games after school. Elevate Math Wyoming will also host two sessions of elementary math intensives for eligible students to either engage in student-led, project based enrichment and acceleration, or to provide additional, targeted intervention in grade-based standards and core concepts prior to launching into middle school.

  • Elevate Math Wyoming will distribute research-based educational resources and support materials to local math tutors, educators, other non-profits and parents. These materials facilitate the use of multi-sensory math techniques to make learning math more accessible and FUN. Community mentorship will also be foundational to our work at all levels.

Elevate Math Wyoming will offer all programming free of cost and use a weighted lottery process to prioritize students with the highest needs.

Learn more about our proposed programming, get involved or donate to our fundraising campaign.

View our complete, non-profit proposal HERE.

A 1984 study still widely cited today demonstrated that 1-on-1 tutoring instruction can generate learning gains of approximately two standard deviations when compared to regular classroom instruction.

The University of Chicago’s Education Lab reported that in-school tutoring programs in Chicago and Georgia improved math scores by about two-thirds of a year’s worth of learning.

The data.

The 2023/2024 WY-TOPP (Wyoming Test of Proficiency and Progress) math proficiency scores for the Teton County School District demonstrate a clear correlation between underserved populations and non proficient math scores across all grade levels.

Furthermore, less than 50% of the general student population scored proficient/advanced in math at the 6th and 9th grade levels.

2023/2024 TCSD Math proficiency scores ranked against other comparable Wyoming school districts indicate the entire TSCD student population is underperforming at several grade levels, especially 6th grade.

In 2023/2024, 32.5% of the student population at Teton County School District (TCSD) were hispanic, 26.1% came from low-income families, and 16.3% were active English Language learners.

The underserved population at TCSD represents a significant cohort of students who are underperforming in math and are least likely to afford private math support services. These students are also not on track to meet interim and 15-year performance goals at the middle and high school levels.

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Meet our Board of Directors

  • Amanda Moyer, MS - Board President and Founder

    Amanda earned dual BS degrees in Geology and Environmental Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a MS degree in Geochemistry from the University of Wyoming. Amanda has worked as a Geologist in the private and government sectors, as well as led the adult education program and served as an adjunct math instructor for Central Wyoming College - Jackson. She currently serves as Executive Director of the Old Wilson Schoolhouse (a nonprofit community center) and provides private math tutoring services to local K-12 and college students through her company Teton STEAM.

  • Rachael Karns, M.Ed. - Board Treasurer and Secretary

    Rachael earned a BA in Anthropology with a Certificate in African Studies from Smith College and a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Colorado, Denver. With experience teaching Kindergarten through 5th grade in both public and private elementary schools, she has a deep understanding of early childhood and elementary education. As a curriculum developer for Discovery Education, she played a key role in designing Egypt’s national mathematics curriculum and scripting educational segments for Egyptian Public Television to support students and their families in learning mathematical concepts. Rachael currently serves as a K-5 Mathematics Specialist at Jackson Elementary School, where she leads multi-tiered systems of support to enhance math instruction and intervention.

  • Jeffrey Rosenbluth, PhD - Director

    Dr. Jeffrey Rosenbluth graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BSE in Computer Science, earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Courant Institute at NYU, and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is a private investor and former Managing Director and head of Fixed Income Arbitrage at Salomon Brothers, Inc. Dr. Rosenbluth serves as an overseer of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a trustee of Harvey Mudd College and is a founding member of the nonprofit board of Math for America.