Math for America - Jim Simons, Founder and Chair, Math Teachers, Supply & Demand

ABOUT US

MISSION & VISION

Dear Friends:

In 2004, we created Math for America for two fundamental purposes: to make a positive educational impact on New York City public school students and serve as a national math education model.

Today, our Math for America Fellows and Masters Teachers continue to make a profound difference, helping thousands of students become more interested and proficient in math throughout all of New York City. At the same time, new programs have started in San Diego, Los Angeles, Washington, DC and Boston with many more opportunities on the horizon.

Most significantly, this past year Congress used MƒA’s New York model as the basis for creating the National Science Foundation Teaching and Master Teaching Fellowships authorized through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program in the America COMPETES Act. We are hopeful and confident that this initial investment will lead to the creation of a full force national Math, Science Teaching Corps.

It’s become abundantly clear the basic rules of supply and demand need to be applied to our education system. Specifically, those who are good at math should have the financial and social incentives to become excellent career-long teachers.

Improving math education is an increasingly urgent endeavor and not investing in quality teachers has implications for our young people as they compete in today’s global job market and economy. Maintaining our nation’s competitiveness relies on developing a highly skilled and savvy workforce fluent in both math and technology.

Much credit for MƒA’s success can be attributed to the efforts of our recently retired Executive Director Irwin Kra who will remain on the board while teaching algebra this fall at Berkeley. To lead our next phase of growth, I am extremely pleased to announce the appointment of John Ewing, currently the Executive Director of the American Math Society, to become the President of MƒA’s new National office.

On behalf of the MƒA board, staff and Fellows, we appreciate your interest and support in giving our nation’s students the best trained, motivated and passionate math teachers.

Sincerely,

Jim Simons
Chairman

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JAMES SIMONS,
FOUNDER and CHAIR
Building a corps of strong math teachers