The Algebra Project is producing a high school curriculum with funding from the National Science Foundation's Instructional Materials Development, GE Foundation’s fund for math excellence, and other sources. The curriculum's empirical learning methods and careful analysis of participant's language ground it solidly in recent instructional research.
The curriculum has improved student scores on traditional state-administered standardized tests. At the first year trial at Lanier High School in Jackson, MS, 55% of the students following this curriculum passed the Mississippi Algebra I Examination in their first sitting, compared with the 40% of students following the regular course.
Advisors for the National Science Foundation grant work are:
* Alan Schoenfeld, University of California at Berkeley
* Ed Dubinsky, Kent State
* Florence Fasanelli, American Association for the Advancement of Science
* Uri Treisman, University of Texas at Austin
* Don Goldberg, El Camino Community College
* Sylvia Boseman, Spelman College
* Carolyn Narisimhan, DePaul University
* Jim Fey, University of Maryland
* Carolyn Kieran, University of Quebec at Montreal
* Peter Braunfeld, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (Emeritus)
Examples of materials can be seen at http://www.math.siu.edu/budzban/TripLine.html.