Advancing urban math skills Archived article from Dec 15, 2003   Ahsha Martin, (left) an 8th-grader at the Ridge Street School in Newark, thanks educators at the launch of MetroMath: The Center for Mathematics in America’s Cities Nov. 24. The new center, which received a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation, is aimed at improving mathematics instruction in the nation’s urban schools. MetroMath, directed by Joseph G. Rosenstein, a professor of mathematics at Rutgers, is a collaboration of Rutgers, the City University of New York and the University of Pennsylvania, and the school districts of Newark and Plainfield, N.J., New York City and Philadelphia. It is sponsored at Rutgers by the Center for Math, Science and Computer Education, as well as the Graduate School of Education and the facultes of arts and sciences in New Brunswick and Newark.

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