Bob Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021), a veteran of the civil rights struggle, draws an analogy between the early voter registration drives in Mississippi during the 1960’s and an innovative school curriculum called The Algebra Project. The vote gave poor people access to political power; quantitative reasoning, Moses argues, enables students to have access to today’s economic arrangements.
For more information on current efforts to develop a national “We the People – Math Literacy for All” Alliance that is calling on the nation for Direct Federal Investment and Involvement in supporting mathematics literacy for all K-12 students, and particularly for students performing in the lowest quartile on state standardized exams, please visithttps://www.mathliteracyforall.org
Robert Parris Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021) was an American educator and civil rights activist, known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and he was one of the main organizers for the Freedom Summer Project.
Additional resources:
- Remembering Bob Moses (The Algebra Project)