Greater Birmingham Mathematics Partnership

Building Communities of Learners and Leaders in Mathematics

 

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Welcome to the Greater Birmingham Mathematics Partnership website. The Greater Birmingham Mathematics Partnership, or “GBMP” for short, is dedicated to improving mathematics education in the greater Birmingham, Alabama region and contributing to better mathematics teaching and learning well beyond.  On the following pages, you’ll find information about our project’s beginnings, evolution, funding, design, constituent components, activities, and plans. You will also find links to resources, opportunities, and other sites of potential interest. Through this website we hope to provide information that is valuable to anyone who may share an interest in our project and/or improving mathematics education.

Thanks for visiting with us,
John Mayer, UAB Prof. of Mathematics and GBMP Principal Investigator
Faye Clark, GBMP Co-Project Director
Ann Dominick, GBMP Co-Project Director

 

 

      

 GBMP Project Spotlight

 

2012 SUMMER COURSES

From June 19th - June 29th, 2012, GBMP held its professional development summer courses for local teachers at Irondale Middle School.  Five courses were run simultaneously over the 2-week period and included Patterns I, Patterns II, Numerical Reasoning, and a new course called Reasoning About Data.  In total, 168 participants (teachers) completed a course this summer.  National Science Foundation funding supported about a third of the teachers, while grants from the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham and the Malone Family Foundation provided the funding for the other two thirds. Our sincere thanks to these sponsors and to our wonderful hosts at Irondale Middle School, Principal Phyllis Montalto, Becky McGowan in the office, and Michelle Shelton, head custodian.

 

Please direct project questions and comments to John Mayer:

Email: mayer@math.uab.edu

Telephone: 205-934-2154

Mailing address:
John Mayer

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dept. of Mathematics, CH 452 

1300 University Blvd.

Birmingham, AL. 35294-1170

 

 

This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Nos. DUE 0632522 and DUE 0928665.  Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

 

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