{"id":22483,"date":"2014-07-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=22483"},"modified":"2014-07-29T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:00:00","slug":"how-the-algebra-project-helps-math-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/07\/29\/how-the-algebra-project-helps-math-make-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Algebra Project Helps Math Make Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John O'Connor \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p>

Sara Weinberg talks Miami Northwestern High School students through an Algebra Project assignment.<\/p><\/div>\n

“This idea is to learn a language you have to talk it…you have to engage in it.”<\/p>\n

That’s how Algebra Project founder Bob Moses described the principle underlying the program<\/a>. Math is a language. And like any language, teachers need to help students translate the language into terms they understand.<\/p>\n

But like the students learning algebra, it’s difficult to understand the process Moses described without watching students in action. So we sat in last week as the Algebra Project wrapped up orientation for its third group of students at Miami Northwestern High School.<\/p>\n

“You can break down math into how you understand,” teacher Sara Weinberg told a group of students tentatively chatting about an assignment. “Break it into your language.”<\/p>\n\n

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