“It seems to me that whenever we start[ed] succeeding, they start[ed] canceling the programs. When we succeed, the powers that be…they don’t want us to succeed.” retired Atlanta Black mathematics teacher, 2018 Authors: Jenice L. View, Toya J. Frank, Jay Bradley, and Marvin Powell In our previous article, we introduce the Trajectories study, our project […]
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The Math Wars: Are We Winning or Losing the Battle?
The math wars began in the 1990’s in California. At that time reforms were being made to mathematics curriculum for high school students which focused on moving from concrete instruction to abstract mathematical thinking. Many of the reform programs were being funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the hope that more students would […]