Boston University, five school districts in the Greater Boston area (Arlington, Chelsea, Lawrence, Waltham, and Watertown Public Schools) and the Education Development Center, are core partners in Focus on Mathematics, a Math and Science Partnership focusing on mathematics teaching and learning in grades 5-12. Supporting partners include the Center for Industrial Mathematics and Statistics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. The Partnership's approach to increasing student achievement and teacher quality is through three inter-related programs that provide teachers with solid content-based professional development, place students into rigorous courses and curricula, and establish a mathematical community in which mathematicians and precollege educators work together to put mathematics at the core of 5-12 mathematics education.
The Principal Investigator of Focus on Mathematics is Glenn Stevens.
More information can be
found on a separate web site created by this project: http:// www.focusonmath.org.
This site was created to enhance communication and collaboration
between partners within the Focus on Math
project as well as to inform the public of the efforts of the Math
and Science Partnership Program. While selected documents in the
library and resources sections as
well as the interactive calendar have been made available
to the public, only logged in members of the
Focus on Mathematics project can post comments,
participate or read posts in the Working Groups.
