The semester just ended, and I’m now in full retrospect mode. This semester I was fortunate to have only one prep — two sections of Linear Algebra. Linear algebra, for me, is the cornerstone of a ...
Robert Moses, founder of The Algebra Project, talks about his longtime efforts to help low-income students and students of color achieve math skills they need for economic success. From NPR News, this ...
We hear all the time about project-based learning. But how does it really work? Of all the tools humans have ever created to help describe and understand our world, few are more useful than ...
Imagine walking into a math classroom. Everything is quiet, students are diligently writing and reading and thinking. You hear the rustle of paper, scratching pens, and the occasional student shifting ...
Moses founded Math Talk, a company that produces activities, public art and products to help people learn the subject, after ...
As an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s, Bob Moses traveled to the most dangerous parts of Mississippi to help African Americans end segregation and secure ...
$3.8M NSF grant for Lynch School researcher Laura O'Dwyer to examine supports for ninth graders at risk of failing algebra. Nation, World & Society / Education - Published on March 08, 2017 Lynch ...
LOWER MERION, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Math can be a challenging subject for kids in any grade. To help students stay on track and really learn to love the subject, there's something really special ...
SEVERAL MINUTES into a demonstration last weekend of a new way to teach algebra, this observer suddenly realized that something was different — really different: If this was algebra, why was it so ...
When Bob Moses brought his Algebra Project to Baltimore in 1990, he could hardly have imagined the impact his mathematics curriculum would have on the city’s youth two decades later. By signing up, ...
I hate to put down my competitors at other media outlets, but this line in the Associated Press story about today’s Baltimore Algebra Project protest in Annapolis made me laugh: “It was unclear what ...