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Papers by Robert “Bob” Moses
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The Calculus Toll Gate: Cognitive Scarcity and the Political Economy of Advanced Mathematics
I. The Knowledge Economy Has an Old Problem It is now commonplace to describe our present situation as a knowledge-based economy — a society in which the primary goods are cognitive rather than material, and in which the capacity to produce, interpret, and deploy...
Excerpt from Five Misconceptions about Calculus Access — Misconception #1: “Students Need Four Years of High School Mathematics to Understand Calculus”
The Problem Walk into any high school mathematics department and you'll encounter an unquestioned orthodoxy: students must complete Algebra I, then Geometry, then Algebra II, then Pre-Calculus before they can possibly understand calculus concepts. This four-year...
Was Moses a Quinean?
“Is It True?,” Feature Talk, Mathematization, and the Missing Middle Was Robert Moses a Quinean? The answer depends on what part of Moses’s curricular work we are trying to understand. If we look at the Algebra Project’s concern with observation sentences, public...
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Math Literacy
African Americans And Racial Justice: Ella Baker, SNCC and the Organizing Practices That Anchor The Algebra Project and The Young People’s Project
The 2020 Democratic National Convention promoted “We The People” as its framework for moving the nation through the current existential threat to its practice of democracy. Its presidential nominee, Joe Biden even reached into revered Civil Rights history to...
“We The People”
Making the Case for Direct Constitutional Federal Investment and Involvement
Talking Points for the opening Panel of Elders – 5/16/2019 Political Knowledge and Practice for Teaching Mathematics Research Conference Making the Case for Direct Constitutional Federal Investment and Involvement (DCFI) to Achieve the Common Good in Education. The...
Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project to the “We the People – Math Literacy for All” Alliance
Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project to the “We the People – Math Literacy for All” Alliance – an update for the SNCC Legacy Project Board – Saturday, April 6, 2019 National Citizenship: 1960s and the Mississippi Theater of the Civil Rights Movement:...
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Memos
John Doar Papers – Memo
Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2019From: Bob Moses, Fellow, 2018-2019 Friends of Princeton LibraryTo: Princeton University – Mudd Library StaffRe: John Doar’s Papers at Mudd LibraryCc: Wesley Hogan, Pat Sullivan, Burke Doar, Gael Doar, Robert Doar It is little appreciated...
Speeches
The Somerset Clause, Bob @ Seattle STEM Summit
WE THE PEOPLE I. When Kingman Brewster died it fell to Sam Chauncey to figure out how he should be buried. Sam “slung a low, unadorned black marble wall around the grave” at the Grove Street cemetery in New Haven where all Presidents of Yale rest and chiseled...
We The People – Speech
WE THE PEOPLE At the start of the 1964 Freedom Summer, after Mickey Schwerner, Andy Goodman and James Chaney were captured to be assassinated, James Forman, executive director of SNCC, and I were summoned to meet with Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General for...
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Mississippi Freedom Summer
We the People: Freedom and the Mississippi Theater of the Civil Rights Movement: 1960 - 1964 Freedom Rides, Freedom Votes, Freedom Schools, Freedom Work, Freedom Elections, Freedom Summer, Freedom Democratic Party By Robert “Bob” Moses We the People: Amzie...