1) Math literacy and civil rights, at first glance, seem like unrelated concepts. What is the connection? 

2) When you started the Algebra Project you had in mind redressing the issue of equity in education. Why equity? 

3) You write in your book, Radical Equations, that the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was less about challenges and protests against white power than feeling our own way towards our own power and possibilities. Could you explain this further? 

4) One of the points that you bring up in your book is the need for students to develop intellectual capital to exist and thrive in the technology-oriented society that we live in. How is the concept of developing intellectual capital and of developing skills for jobs different today than 40 or 50 years ago? 

5) What is the youngest student age at which the Algebra Project has been successfully implemented? 

6) How does the Algebra Project teach math concepts? How do these methods differ from the way algebra has been taught in the past? 

7) What is the average level of mathematics knowledge of the Algebra Project students when they graduate from high school? 

8) In your book, you provide these appalling statistics. African Americans make up 15 percent of the U.S. population. Yet, in 1995, they earned 1.8 percent of the doctorate degrees in computer science; 2.1 percent of the doctorate degrees in engineering; 1.5 percent of the doctorate degrees in the physical sciences and 0.6 percent of the doctorate degrees in mathematics. Why are these percentages so low and could you talk about what you mean when you write about sharecropper education? 

9) What does it take to support students, parents and community in engaging "the demand side" of mathematics education reform? 

10) During the Freedom Rides, many northerners went to the South to help SNCC and other organizations with voter registration drives. Now, you have a group of math literacy workers coming from the south to the north to teach us, not only about math, but also about the struggle to reduce inequality in our public schools. What are your thoughts on this shift?