Transition Mathematics Project

Foundation:
How do students and faculty think about math and learning?

• Below are presentation slides from Promising Practices to Support College Readiness, South Sound Math Consortium (March, 2010), by David Foster who has been the Director of the Noyce Foundation's mathematics program, the Silicon Valley Math Initiative, for 10 years. He is Co-Director of the Santa Clara Valley Math Project and Co-Chair of the advisory committee of the Mathematics Assessment Resource Service published by CTB-McGraw Hill
  • Promising Practices to Support College Readiness, PART I
  • Promising Practices to Support College Readiness, PART II
• Moving to Scale - Gates and Hewlett Foundations move to expand successful program for changing community college experience for at-risk students -- with hopes of even broader expansion down the road, 2010
• The Engineering Subject Centre Deep vs. surface learning
• Carol Dweck’s   Mindsets and Math/Science Achievement
• Academic Youth Development program
• Annenberg Media resources in mathematics
• SPECC Change and Sustain/Ability: A Program Director's Reflections on Institutional Learning, by Rose Asera, from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2008
• Accelerating Remedial Math Education: How Institutional Innovation and State Policy Interact, by Radha Roy Biswas, Achieving the Dream Policy Brief, 2007