Already, changes are evident, in students and in the community. Three years ago, a family math night attracted maybe six participants. The next morning, as the bus pulls out for Savannah, Ga., silence attests to the previous day's effort. For two hours, lulled by a driving rain, the kids doze. As they close in on Bartlett Middle School on the south side of Savannah, Maisha starts nudging them awake.
Students drag slightly as they exit the bus.
The kids start to sense they're going to nail this one. The prime-number rap begins. Moses, standing off to one side, is pleased. As they've gone along, they've been figuring out how to run it. Bartlett is the only school in Georgia to use the Algebra Project.