Welcome to Project TIME
Project TIME (Transitions In Math Education) is Green River Community College's outreach program aimed at better preparing young students for college-level and employment-level mathematics. It is a collaborative effort between Green River C. C.; the Kent, Auburn, Enumclaw, Tahoma, Renton and Sumner school districts; and Seattle University and the University of Washington. The $275,000, three-year effort is part of a statewide initiative funded by the Washington State Legislature and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Our Goal
High-school students ought to be taking more math courses. Washington state's minimum requirement -- that all high school students take 2 years of any mathematics in order to graduate -- simply isn't enough to prepare kids for college or for most careers.
Through Project TIME, we hope to educate students and their parents about the importance of taking math classes throughout all four years of high school.
We're also developing alternatives to the traditional math course sequence, so that students who may not be interested in the calculus track have options for continuing their mathematical studies in exciting and useful ways.
And we're working with local school districts to help them align mathematics programs to the high standards necessary to prepare students in the 21st century. To this end, we're promoting the goals of Washington State's Transition Mathematics Project: to align standards and expectations for mathematics; to increase student success in completing math requirements; to build the capacity of teachers and instructors to align curriculum and instruction to standards and expectations; and to communicate math expectations to students.
The Transition Mathematics Project
Studies show that American high school seniors rank near the bottom in international tests of mathematics knowledge, and more than a third rank below "Basic" in the mathematics portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The Transition Mathematics Project seeks to reverse this trend by supporting collaborative partnerships among high schools and post-secondary education institutions as they work to improve student outcomes in mathematics. Project TIME is one of those partnerships.