11/27/2023
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A legacy that goes on and on! Robert (Bob) Moses (1935-2021) was awarded posthumously a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Design by The International Society for the Design and Development in Education ()! This prestigious organization recognizes how designers can aim high in terms of the wider outcomes of learning to ensure individual lives are enhanced in ways that can make society more equitable and inclusive. "This is exactly what Bob achieved through his design and ISDDE wishes to both recognize this and support those who worked with him on his lifetime’s project" ISDDE announced last month at their annual conference held in Boston; and concluded "Not only did Bob’s lifetime of educational design impact generations of young learners of mathematics, it also has had profound influence on many mathematics educators over the years."
Bob Moses', founded The Algebra Project Inc. in 1982, its curriculum consists of materials in pre-Algebra, Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II, and is intended to bring students to the point where they're ready to study and engage in advanced mathematics in high school and in college or career. Drawing on the power of student discussion, in both small and large groups is central to the Algebra Project classroom experience and teachers are supported with the challenges that such an approach makes through the “Five-Step Curricular Process” that is central to the accompanying professional development program. His goal was to give students a lived experience of the meaning-making of abstract mathematical thinking. His program aimed to build students’ abilities to think in generative ways about mathematical situations and objects, but also at the same time aimed to expand their identities as thinkers and doers in mathematics and beyond.
After this pioneering work, two further organizations followed this inspiration: The Young People's Project, Inc and MathTalk PBC stemmed in the following decades.
ISDDE aims to promote excellence in educational products and materials, particularly for science, mathematics, and technology by creating a professional community that shares knowledge, research, approaches, and critiques. ISDDE advances these goals through annual conferences, an e-journal, Educational Designer and annual prizes. For more information about ISDDE and its awards, visit www.isdde.org.
