Community Based Mathematics Project of Philadelphia at Penn GSE

CBMP began in the summer of 2009 with a group of middle school math teachers from Philadelphia and graduate students and faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. After finding that the contexts used in the existing math curriculum were not familiar to the youth living in this urban community, we redesigned them to include settings and situations that were more relevant to the middle school students. The initial goal of the project was to develop materials t

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CBMP began in the summer of 2009 with a group of middle school math teachers from Philadelphia and graduate students and faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. After finding that the contexts used in the existing math curriculum were not familiar to the youth living in this urban community, we redesigned them to include settings and situations that were more relevant to the middle school students. The initial goal of the project was to develop materials t

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