Math Foundations  chosen as participant in the inaugural class of Good Company Ventures - an incubator program which "catalyzes start-ups with innovative solutions to big, unmet social needs." The company spent the summer of 2009 in a boot-camp designed to "provide support, facilities, and mentoring to qualified, socialy conscious entrpreneurs who can make a difference" Read more....

 At left: Boot Camp entrepreneurs with Good Company Venture founders and the mayor of Philadelphia.

Math Foundations' CEO profiled in the University of Pennslyvania Graduate School of Education Alumni magazine

For Angela McIver, pursuing a PhD at GSE grew out of sheer necessity. While directing an after-school program for low-income high school students in Philadelphia, she found that she was unable to positively impact her students' math achievement. "My after-school program was charged with preparing students for math related majors in college," says Angela. "But what I found was that my students were going to college in high numbers but dropping out of their math and science majors like flies." When she attempted to find assessments and curricula that would prepare her students for high-level math, she found little to support her efforts. "The utter lack of useful tools for working with older students with weak math foundations is what led me to GSE and the Ph.D. program in Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum," she says. Read more...