Middle School Intervention to Prepare all Students for Algebra

小行星9630116 代数项目（AP）是一个中学项目，旨在显着增加谁在中学后期或高中完成代数成功的学生的比例，谁进入大学预科数学学习。 这个NSF项目将在四年的时间里在密西西比、密西西比州杰克逊、马萨诸塞州剑桥和纽约州纽约的三角洲地区的3个农村地区雇用大约500名5-8年级的教师。 教师将参加至少128小时的增强课程，从为期2周的AP材料和教学法夏季研讨会开始。 这些以探究为基础的材料被设计为其他以标准为基础的中学课程的补充。 在接下来的两个学年中，教师将参加每年34小时的后续研讨会，并在自己的课堂上接受AP培训师的指导。 教师发展活动将由现场专业发展团队指导，其中包括数学家/数学教育家，AP培训师和现场教师。 AP活动在每个站点包括社区发展工作，以深化社区对数学和科学职业教育道路中代表性不足的学生的数学教育改革的承诺。该项目还将开始记录和研究社区发展工作的效果。 该项目为期4年，由NSF资助2，503，748美元，可审计成本分摊为1，739，699美元。 该项目与索罗斯基金会开放社会研究所的1200万美元奖金有关。

9630116 Robert P. Moses The Algebra Project (AP) is a middle school project designed to significantly increase the proportion of students who complete algebra successfully in late middle school or high school, and who enter college preparatory mathematics studies. This NSF project will engage approximately 500 grade 5-8 teachers over a four year period in 3 rural sites in the Delta area of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, Cambridge, MA, and New York, NY. Teachers will participate in a minimum of 128 hours of enhancement starting with a 2-week summer workshop in the AP materials and pedagogy. These inquiry-based materials are designed as a supplement to other standards-based middle school curricula. Over the next two school years, teachers will participate in 34 hours per year of follow-up workshops and mentoring from AP trainers in their own classroom. The teacher development activities will be guided by a Site Professional Development Team, which includes a mathematician/mathematics educator, AP trainers, and site teachers. The AP activity at each site includes community development work to deepen community commitment to mathematics education reform for underrepresented students in the mathematics and science career education path. The project will also begin to document and research the effects of community development work. The project is funded at 4-year project is funded by NSF at $2,503,748 with auditable cost-sharing of $1,739,699. This project is connected to a $12,000,000 award from the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundations.