Math Professor Awarded Grant
A mathematics professor at Cal State Dominguez Hills has been awarded a $576,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to upgrade the skills of middle school math teachers, university officials announced this week.
The professor, Eunice Krinsky, will use the grant, which covers 3 1/2 years, also to encourage middle school students to pursue careers as math or science teachers. In addition, the program aims at keeping teachers from leaving the profession.
The Mathematics Enrichment and Retraining for Inservice Teachers project, dubbed MERIT, will focus on math content and effective ways of teaching math to children from diverse ethnic backgrounds, said university officials.
The program, created in cooperation with the Los Angeles Unified School District, will begin this summer. About 60 teachers are expected to participate.
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