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Bob Moses became famous as one of the chief organizers of the Freedom Summer of 1964, when hundreds of college students invaded Mississippi to fight nonviolently for civil rights. But Moses was also a math teacher, and that combination of callings helps explain what he has since become. Every Monday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radical Equations | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

Moses drills his students with the same quiet intensity he displayed in the '60s, when he was repeatedly beaten - and nearly killed - but never wavered from his path. He has hit upon a fresh, effective way to teach abstract math concepts. His method begins with physical experience, then moves to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radical Equations | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

Bob Moses became famous as one of the chief organizers of the Freedom Summer of 1964, when hundreds of college students invaded Mississippi to fight nonviolently for civil rights. But Moses was also a math teacher, and that combination of callings helps explain what he has since become. Every Monday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Community Activism: MATH LITERACY: Radical Equations | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

Moses drills his students with the same quiet intensity he displayed in the '60s, when he was repeatedly beaten--and nearly killed--but never wavered from his path. He has hit upon a fresh, effective way to teach abstract math concepts. His method begins with physical experience, then moves to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Community Activism: MATH LITERACY: Radical Equations | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

Moses has leveraged his ideas by training other teachers to apply them. His organization, the Algebra Project, born 19 years ago, is based on ideas he developed while helping his children learn to solve math problems. Today the project, which has its headquarters in Cambridge, has trained more than 500...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Community Activism: MATH LITERACY: Radical Equations | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

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