The Actuarial Foundation has pioneered a math-mentoring program that taps actuaries' expertise in math and community spirit, creating a vehicle for them to work as volunteer math tutors in the public and private schools. The Actuarial profession is a mathematics-based profession. Mathematics is an everyday workplace tool for actuaries. The profession's ability to continue providing competent service in the future requires supporting mathematics achievement among today's students. Mathematics learned in the classroom today is employed at work by the actuaries of tomorrow.
Students are quick learners when they are offered hands-on, practical experience.
Practicing professionals can open a young mind to learning that integrates classroom, daily life and the workplace. When business professionals and educators work together in voluntary partnerships that increase student achievement in math, everybody wins. The focus of the Actuarial Foundation's Advancing Student Achievement initiative is the creative development of mathematics instruction and education to make such an integrated tradition both realistic and accessible. The Actuarial Foundation's Advancing Student Achievement integrates the traditions of classroom math and workplace math by forming partnerships to create sustainable, transferable, locally designed and owned mathematics mentoring programs that use members of mathematics based professions. The Foundation is funded principally by the actuarial profession through voluntary contributions.