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Workshop Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2008: Teaching and Learning Algebra
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Thursday04:30 PM - 06:30 PMThe transition from arithmetic to algebra: further perspectives
Herbert Clemens (Ohio State University), Robert Moses (The Algebra Project), Mary Jo Tavormina, Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley) -
Workshop Raising the floor: Progress and setbacks in the struggle for quality mathematics education for all
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Sunday07:30 PM - 08:15 PMThe Algebra Project
Robert Moses (The Algebra Project)08:15 PM - 08:40 PMDiscussion/Open Mic
Robert Moses (The Algebra Project)May 09, 2006
Tuesday03:30 PM - 04:15 PMThe Young Peoples' Project, the Algebra Project, and the Flagway Game Campaign
Robert Moses (The Algebra Project) -
Workshop The Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (K-8): Why, What and How?
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Thursday07:00 PM - 10:00 PMWhat Mathematical Knowledge, Skill, and Habits Do Teachers Need in Order to Teach Effectively?
Robert Moses (The Algebra Project) -
Workshop Assessing Students’ Mathematics Learning: Issues, Costs and Benefits
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Sunday02:00 PM - 04:00 PMCrucial Contemporary Social, Political and Cultural Issues in Mathematics Assessment in the U.S. (part 1)
Robert Moses (The Algebra Project)02:00 PM - 04:00 PMCrucial Contemporary Social, Political and Cultural Issues in Mathematics Assessment in the U.S. (part 2)
Robert Moses (The Algebra Project), Judith Ramaley
Personal Profile of Dr. Robert Moses

Robert (Bob) Parris Moses grew up in Harlem, attended Stuyvesant High School (1952), Hamilton College (BA, 1956), and Harvard University (MA Philosophy, 1957), and taught middle school math for three years (Horace Mann School, NY) before traveling South in the summer of 1961 to join the burgeoning sit-in movement as a field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He initiated SNCC’s Mississippi Voter Registration Project that summer, was appointed its director in 1962 and, together with Medgar Evers (NAACP), David Dennis (CORE), and Aaron Henry (SCLC), revitalized and led the Council Of Federated Organizations (COFO) into the Mississippi Summer Project (1964 Freedom Summer), which parachuted the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to the National Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, where Fannie Lou Hamer led the MFDP insurgency, which eliminated Jim Crow from the National Democratic Party. When Moses turned 18 in the middle of his freshman year at Hamilton, he petitioned his Harlem based draft board for Conscientious Objection (CO) to war. He was granted student deferment status through his Hamilton, Harvard, and Horace Mann years, but, soon after joining SNCC, he was denied CO status at a hearing in 1961. A speaker at the first national student rally against the war in Vietnam (organized by Students for a Democratic Society, SDS, Spring 1965), he: joined Staughton Lynd, Dave Dellinger, and Women’s Strike For Peace to organize The Congress of Unrepresented People (summer 1965), spoke out against the war (1965-’66), and left the country (August 1966) when ordered to report to the Army. He and his wife, Janet Jemmott, made their way to Tanzania, where they served as teachers for its Ministry of Education until 1976. He and Janet returned to the States with their family (Maisha, Omo, Taba and Malika), and Bob returned to Harvard’s PhD Philosophy program in the summer of ’76 to study W.V.O. Quine’s philosophy of mathematics. While Janet worked with the children on their language arts, Bob organized their mathematics education and used a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1982-87) to: enter their school as a parent volunteer, teach Maisha algebra, and initiate the Algebra Project and the use of mathematics as an organizing tool for a Quality Public School Education (QECR) for all students. Cf: Radical Equations—Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project (Beacon, 2001); Quality Education as a Constitutional Right-creating a grassroots movement to transform public schools (Beacon Press, 2010) "Photo credit: Michael Lisnet, Math for America" |
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Educational Advisory Committee | Mar 07, 2015 | Mar 31, 2020 |
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