NATION : Project Seeks to Vitalize Math
NEW YORK — The Ford Foundation announced today a $10-million project to boost mathematics education for schoolchildren in poor communities.
Project QUASAR--Quantitative Understanding: Amplifying Student Achievement and Reasoning--aims to help schools come up with new approaches to enliven math in grades four through eight. The goal is to help schools go beyond drills and rote memorization and get pupils to see real-life meaning in numbers.
The project will begin operating in five schools in the 1990-91 school year and will be expanded to include at least 10 other schools the following year.
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