{"id":724860,"date":"2018-06-26T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T17:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=724860"},"modified":"2018-06-27T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T17:45:00","slug":"a-grant-to-enhance-math-education-in-rural-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=724860","title":{"rendered":"A Grant to Enhance Math Education in Rural Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/06\/John-Lamb.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/06\/John-Lamb-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-724861\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; The Greater Texas Foundation has awarded the University of Texas at Tyler an $865,963 grant. The school has also partnered with other state institutions to enhance math education in rural areas. A UT Tyler associate professor of mathematics, Dr. John Lamb, has partnered with professors at the University of Texas at Austin, Stephen F Austin State University and Sam Houston State University to create the Advancing Inquiry in Middle Mathematics for Rural East Texas program. It is a two year program designed to study math courses taught in middle and high school to help students better prepare for success in post secondary classes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The program is now recruiting 105 math teachers in grades 5 to 10 from rural areas surrounding each of the partnering universities. You can email Dr. Lamb at <a href=\"mailto:jlamb@uttyler.edu\">jlamb@uttyler.edu<\/a> for more information or if you are interested in participating.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; The Greater Texas Foundation has awarded the University of Texas at Tyler an $865,963 grant. The school has also partnered with other state institutions to enhance math education in rural areas. A UT Tyler associate professor of mathematics, Dr. John Lamb, has partnered with professors at the University of Texas at Austin, Stephen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=724860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Grant to Enhance Math Education in Rural Areas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":724861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 05:37:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724863,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724860\/revisions\/724863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/724861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}