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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...
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...
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...
Excerpt from Five Misconceptions about Calculus Access — The Prerequisites Myth That’s Failing Our Students
Do you want to increase access to advanced mathematics in your school district? Peeling away the five misconceptions about calculus access will enable your students and teachers to do just that! Every year, mathematics departments across the United States...
A Third Way: Neither Remediation nor Acceleration
The dominant responses to inequity in mathematics education have been two: remediation for those deemed behind, and acceleration for those deemed ahead. Both responses accept the same premise — that access to advanced mathematics is a function of prior preparation,...
Dear Friends of the Algebra Project
Executive Director Ben Moynihan Dear Friends of the Algebra Project, As we step into this new year, we carry two things in equal measure: deep and abiding gratitude for everything we're building together and a frank concern I owe it to you to share.To be direct: We...
Open Letter from Ben Moynihan
Dear Friends of the Algebra Project, If Bob Moses were still with us today, I think he’d be asking friends of this work in civil rights and algebra for so many years to please support the Algebra Project and to help us shift into a space where we can share our math...