Evaluation of the GE Foundation-Supported Demonstration Schools Initiative in Milwaukee Public Schools, SY 2012-2013

Many of our readers will recall thai the April, 1963, issue of The Arithmetic Teacher included a report of a visitation team to the Wisconsin School of the Air “Patterns in Arithmetic” [PIA] project, directed by Professor Henry Van Engen of the University of Wisconsin.1 Of current interest is a three-year report covering the work of this project in the Milwaukee public schools, Grades 4–6, for the 1960–61, 1961–62, and 1962–63 school years.2

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Milwaukee's In-Service Arithmetic Education Program

The Arithmetic Teacher ◽

10.5951/at.4.5.0222 ◽

1957 ◽

Vol 4 (5) ◽

pp. 222-223

Author(s):

Lillian C. Paukner

Keyword(s):

Public Schools ◽

Individual Differences ◽

Education Program ◽

Instructional Improvement ◽

Teaching Techniques ◽

Intermediate Grade ◽

Laboratory Experience ◽

Sequential Program ◽

Professional Study ◽

Milwaukee Public Schools

As a part of the in-service education program in the Milwaukee Public Schools, designed to encourage professional study and instructional improvement, a course in the teaching of arithmetic will be offered to intermediate grade teachers. Emphasis will be placed on the sequential program for these grades, teaching techniques, provisions for individual differences, use of manipulative materials, and the evaluation of pupil growth. This will be a workshop type of course, giving teachers opportunities to share successful practices in the teaching of arithmetic and the laboratory experience of trying out these practices in their own classrooms.

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Projects: Linked Learning in Mathematics Project

Mathematics Teacher ◽

10.5951/mt.92.1.0072 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 92 (1) ◽

pp. 72-73

Keyword(s):

Public Schools ◽

Eighth Graders ◽

Ninth Graders ◽

Linked Learning ◽

Urban District ◽

Algebra For All ◽

Year 2000 ◽

Milwaukee Public Schools

A large urban district of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) has an algebra-for-all policy that currently affects all ninth graders and will affect all eighth graders beginning in the year 2000. The Linked Learning in Mathematics Project (LLMP) is a professionaldevelopment project designed to prepare teachers to implement algebra-for-all in MPS.

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