The project's workshops make mathematical literacy a more welcome and indispensable part of the two-year college curriculum in the United States. A goal is to create a mathematically literate society ensuring a workforce equipped to compete in a technologically advanced global economy. In the workshops, math and non-math faculty across the disciplines create, evaluate and modify projects that incorporate mathematics across disciplines. As a result, community college students throughout the nation are offered opportunities to deepen and reinforce the mathematics they learn in their math classes as well as understand its greater importance and application in their lives. Half-day regional workshops, four-day summer or winter institutes and traveling workshops support faculty, nationwide, in integrating mathematics into their curricula. A website supports a network of two-year college faculty involved and interested in the project and publishes classroom tested material. The project heightens awareness among two-year college faculty of the important role two-year colleges play in creating a numerate society. The project also creates and disseminates exemplary projects and courses that integrate mathematics into all disciplines and offers a support system for community colleges integrating math across the disciplines.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Application #
0442439
Program Officer
Herbert H. Richtol
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2005-05-01
Budget End
2011-04-30
Support Year
Fiscal Year
2004
Total Cost
$699,893
Indirect Cost
Name
American Mathematical Association of Two-Year College
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Memphis
State
TN
Country
United States
Zip Code
38134