Houston, TX May 4, 2004
Project GRAD Hosts Math Event
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On April 8, Project GRAD Houston (Graduation Really Achieves Dreams) hosted the first High School Math Challenge. Forty-three students from five Project GRAD High Schools in Houston Independent School District participated in the half-day event, which included a "When Am I Ever Going to Use This?" team challenge and a history component.
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The Math Challenge provided Project GRAD Houston high school students with an interactive event to work as a group using leadership, communication and interpersonal skills as part of the problem-solving process. The purpose of the event is to have students look beyond math as number crunching and isolated facts, and to consider all its forms, depth, and complexity. Project GRAD Houston is a nonprofit school program serving more than 48,000 students in 73 public schools in HISD. Founded by Jim Ketelsen, former chief executive officer of Tenneco, the program was initiated in HISD in 1993. Project GRAD now serves 133,000 students nationally. For more information on Project GRAD Houston or to make a contribution, please visit www.projectgradhouston.org |
