"Working with CBMP 
is true empowerment! 
I feel like a professional because I’m looking at the assessment anchors, I’m helping to adapt the curriculum, I’m drawing on my experience, I’m drawing on my education, and coming together to talk with other professionals. The process really forced me, as the teacher, to look at the concepts and how I could get those concepts through."
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Sue Riemann, Teacher
Henry C. Lea Elementary School
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Who We Are

We are a group of Philadelphia teachers and University of Pennsylvania faculty and students engaged in developing locally relevant and social justice oriented math curriculum with and for Philadelphia middle school math teachers.  We are excited to share our work and invite you to join our professional learning community.  We hope to be a resource for teachers currently using any math curriculum in Philadelphia.

Fall 2012 Dates

The following are the dates of our meeting in the fall semester of 2012:

Session 1: Saturday, October 13, 9:30am - 12:00 noon, Room 300*
Session 3: Saturday, November 17th, 9:30am - 12:00noon, Room TBD*
Session 3: Saturday, December 8th, 9:30am - 12:00 noon, Room 300*

*All sessions are held at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education building located at 3700 Walnut Street. 

Please email us at upenn.mathed@gmail.com if you would like to attend any/all of these sessions!

Other News & Events

CBMP Session at the Penn Annual Alumni Homecoming Event
Saturday, October 27th, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (3700 Walnut St.) exact room TBD
Come learn more about the Community Based Mathematics Project in our presentation at Penn's Annual Homecoming weekend. In this session, we will be introducing our work of using community-based contexts to engage students in our community. Participants will work through one of our activities, learn about the process of developing locally relevant curriculum and hear about the effects of this curriculum on students and the teachers involved in using and developing it. For more information, visit http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/homecoming2012/saturday.html

Publications About Our Work

You can find more information about our work by reading the following publications:

Community Based Mathematics Project: Locally relevant access and educational opportunity  Published in the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Alumni Magazine, Summer 2011

Community Based Mathematics Project: Conceptualizing access through locally relevant mathematics curricula  Published in Perspectives on Urban Education, Spring 2011