About Us
We acknowledge that approximately 70% of Black and Hispanic students failed basic math on the 3rd through 8th-grade 2024 STAAR exam in Texas, and that this reflects a long-term systemic problem within our state.
Our mission is to profoundly improve math achievement in elementary school. Our process is to first draw on the successes of math reforms in Singapore, second, to use our innovative methods to mobilize parental support, and third, to cultivate students’ soft skills to enable them to engage successfully in learning math. Lastly, we will continue to improve our technical skills in the proper application of Concrete – Pictorial – Abstract (CPA/CRA) instruction and expand our support services to inform, teach, and intervene.
Singapore Math Connection
How can a grassroots gathering of regular folks from Southern Dallas County be inspired and informed by an 1980s educational reform movement almost 10,000 miles away?
We can gain knowledge and inspiration from the successes of a once impoverished nation (75% poverty) that, with common sense and hard work, dared to win prosperity for its citizens.
Our Keys to Success
Understand Our Math Failure
We can understand that our generational failures in math learning are rooted in our math instruction that stressed memorizing facts and formulas without first cultivating context and meaning.
Understanding a Solution
We have found that elementary school math students must experience a can-do learning environment that celebrates effective effort and allows them to engage in hands-on learning where they can think about and make sense of math for themselves.
Implement Reforms
Although Texas TEKS introduced similar process-based reforms in 2012, stating students are to engage in math process standards (activities) “to acquire and demonstrate mathematical understanding”, these changes have not been consistently or effectively applied in schools.
Our Team
Tom & Gwen Massey
Amon Rashidi
Janisha Kirby-Maroon
Contact Us
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No One Is Coming to Save Us
Our struggles with math learning have been long-term. Our teachers are stressed with high turnover. Our community’s education has been labeled a national crisis. Yet, prior efforts to reform math learning have faltered irresponsibly.
To improve our children’s math scores, we must push for and monitor the implementation of needed reforms for ourselves. It’s our tax dollars, our children, and our neighborhood at risk of future economic hardships.
Only practical and intelligent reforms that are effectively implemented will improve our future.
Please support us in building stronger schools. Please donate now to fund our reform campaign.