We believe that well-informed families are likely to make good decisions about raising and education their children. A Nation at Risk Publications Articles, brochures and pamphlets are available free of charge. The following are available online, others must be ordered over the phone, or via email. At every session, children come with their parents to a supportive agency in their community. This might be a school, a church, a community agency, a library, a museum, a boys and girls club, a recreation center.
Families go home, play the games, and come back again to learn some more games and activities.
This continues for approximately 6-8 weeks. It began in 1997 and is a multi-year project designed to support the active involvement of parents in their children's mathematical development, help parents understand more about how their children learn mathematically and socially, and increase the likelihood that children will discuss mathematics with an adult who is significant in their lives. The HSC project expects to have some materials available in 1999 and additional materials available in 2000. In particular, our project aims to engage and support parents from communities with a large proportion of children who are underachieving in MST education. MEC offers a series of nine-day mathematics content courses designed to help teachers, administrators and parents develop a deep understanding of the mathematics that today's students should know, and to learn mathematics within classroom environments that model the kinds of instruction and assessment practices that optimize learning.