Committed to Improving How Children Learn Math
What makes AIMS special is how it blends expertise from the people who teach math every day, to those who study how students learn it, to the innovators building the high-quality instructional materials and tech-enabled tools to be used in classrooms.”
Allan Golston
Gates Foundation US Program President
Students with the skills and knowledge to apply advanced mathematics have far more educational and career opportunities than their peers who don’t. A goal of the AIMS Collaboratory is for more students across the United States to have access to high quality math instruction and experiences and to achieve better outcomes as a result.
This is why the AIMS Collaboratory brings together math curriculum developers, technologists, researchers and school districts to collaborate and build innovative, effective products and approaches. Funded by the Gates Foundation, teams across the country are committed to improving how educators teach and children learn math. To do this, AIMS involves teachers and students in the research and development process.
The AIMS Collaboratory is a community of practice where teams develop, build, test, and refine products and instructional strategies and share what they are learning across the network to increase impact. Working in some of the largest school systems in the nation, members are dedicated to making math relevant, meaningful and engaging for students, especially children furthest from opportunity.