Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Teacher Links Math to Civil Rights
Future educators at Pearl River Community College got a mathematics lesson of their own Wednesday.
Jackson math teacher Bob Moses brought his students to PRCC to demonstrate his nationally known Algebra Project. It aims to teach math skills to disadvantaged youth.
Moses engaged the crowd in a few rounds of "math bingo" and told how efforts to teach disadvantaged students relates to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
"We're using some of the tools we learned in the civil rights movement to organize," he says. "We're working what we call the demand side of the problem. In the 60s it was getting sharecroppers to demand their rights, and now it&
#39;s getting their grandchildren and great grandchildren students to demand their rights
for a quality education."
For more information on Moses' project, visit him on the Internet at www.algebra.org.
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I'd like to take a baseball bat to this nigger's head and demand he go back to Afreaka!
T.N.B.
Teacher Links Math to Civil Rights
Future educators at Pearl River Community College got a mathematics lesson of their own Wednesday.
Jackson math teacher Bob Moses brought his students to PRCC to demonstrate his nationally known Algebra Project. It aims to teach math skills to disadvantaged youth.
Moses engaged the crowd in a few rounds of "math bingo" and told how efforts to teach disadvantaged students relates to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
"We're using some of the tools we learned in the civil rights movement to organize," he says. "We're working what we call the demand side of the problem. In the 60s it was getting sharecroppers to demand their rights, and now it&
#39;s getting their grandchildren and great grandchildren students to demand their rights
for a quality education."
For more information on Moses' project, visit him on the Internet at www.algebra.org.
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I'd like to take a baseball bat to this nigger's head and demand he go back to Afreaka!
T.N.B.
