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

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The Poincaré Institute will train New England public school teachers

By Amelia Quinn

“Tufts hopes to give a boost to a new generation of young students by improving instruction in a number of middle schools across New England.

Tufts has recently joined forces with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help improve middle school math education in nine communities in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine thanks to a five−year, $9.5 million grant from the NSF. Tufts mathematicians, physicists and educational researchers will partner with public school teachers from the selected districts to staff the Poincaré Institute for Mathematics Education.” Learn More

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