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math and the movement

Math and the Movement


















Mylah Diffay
EPS 202
Charlotte Frye-TA
12/16/02

The book Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights authored by Robert Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr. depicts another perspective for designing academic curricula. This new perspective is a result of the Algebra Project, a program that gives African American students a creative and more efficient formula to learn math skills at higher levels. Robert Moses introduced the Algebra Project reform in the late 1980s, early 1990s to schools nationwide. This reform has been the cornerstone for contemporary Mathematics pedagogy for schools with predominantly black student populations, and is used by over 100 schools across the country. Moses tailored this program for blacks because Math literacy among this group is lacking, thus increasing the inequalities in schools where blacks are most frequently the lowest-ranked, as seen in tracked schools. Robert Moses was a c...

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