Tufts receives $9.5 million to launch Poincaré Institute for Mathematics Education

Posted: September 15, 2010 at 04:00 PM

“Medford —A Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences project to strengthen mathematics education for middle school children in school districts in Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire has received a $9.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation Math and Science Partnership Program.

The five-year grant will team public school teachers with mathematicians, physicists and educational researchers from Tufts’ Arts and Sciences faculty under a single umbrella named the Poincaré Institute: A Partnership for Mathematics Education. Tufts is working closely with TERC, a nonprofit research organization dedicated to improving mathematics, science and technology teaching and learning.” Learn More