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Five-Step Process: Step Five
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.” - Albert Einstein The ultimate goal of the Five-Step Curricular Process is to guide students to a...
Quality Public Education For All: Do We Want It?
New Introduction by Benjamin Moynihan (An alternate version of this essay was published in the May/June 2001 (Volume 17:3) issue of the Harvard Education Letter as “Quality Education Is a Civil Rights Issue”) It strikes me that Bob and Charlie’s writing remains...
Statement from Executive Director Ben Moynihan
Bob Moses and the students, teachers, parents, researchers, and activists that launched the Algebra Project in the 1980s and 1990s lit a pathway of shared struggle to create educational and economic opportunities for young people that the nation has been too ready to...
Five-Step Process: Step Four
Willard Van Orman Quine, prominent American philosopher and inspiration to Bob Moses during his years at Harvard, said mathematics was a result of the regimentation of ordinary discourse: “A progressive sharpening and regimenting of ordinary idioms: this is what led...
Empowered Teachers Empower Students: A Conversation with a Professional Development Specialist
“A newscast, on every TV that says, ‘Parents: Stop telling your kids that just because you weren’t good at math, they don’t need to be either.’” That’s what Victoria Doctor envisions could brighten the future of equitable math education. She’s not joking. Victoria is...
Advancing Equity and Inclusion in Math Education: The Algebra Project, AI, and Mindset
The above video is an excerpt from Bill Crombie’s portion of the “Advancing Equity and Inclusion in Math Education: The Algebra Project, AI, and Mindset.”
Five-Step Process: Step Three
The Algebra Project’s Five-Step Curricular Process has been at the center of our classroom and Professional Development pedagogy since the Project’s inception. Exploiting a more traditional work cycle, the five steps are meant to be taken in order, as well as...