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    How to Raise a Black Math Genius: A Guide for Parents
    How to Raise a Black Math Genius: A Guide for Parents
    How to Raise a Black Math Genius: A Guide for Parents
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    How to Raise a Black Math Genius: A Guide for Parents

    By LaMailede Assata Moore

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    Embark on a transformative journey with "How to Raise a Black Math Genius: A Guide for Parents" by Dr. LaMailede Assata Moore. This groundbreaking book not only shatters the myth that mathematical genius is an innate trait of a select few but also illuminates the path for

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoore Math Geniuses
    Release dateJan 1, 2025
    ISBN9798218585969
    How to Raise a Black Math Genius: A Guide for Parents

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      How to Raise a Black Math Genius - LaMailede Assata Moore

      How to Raise a Black Math Genius

      A Guide for Parents

      Dr. LaMailede Assata Moore

      Moore Math Geniuses

      BlackMathGenius.com

      Copyright © 2022 by Dr. LaMailede Assata Moore All Rights Reserved

      No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in

      a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by

      any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,

      recording, or otherwise, without express written

      permission of the publisher.

      ISBN:

      Imprint: Independently published

      Printed in the United States of America

      2

      Dedication

      For Black children and for those that we lost too soon: Xavier the Great and Jada the Diva.

      3

      Contents

      Contents

      1

      Acknowledgements

      2

      Foreword

      3

      Introduction

      4

      African Origins and Contributions to Mathematics

      8

      Chapter 1: Parent

      10

      Chapter 2: Presence

      20

      Chapter 3: Participate

      25

      Chapter 4: Praise

      32

      Chapter 5: Practice

      36

      Chapter 6: Patience

      40

      Chapter 7: Perseverance

      43

      Chapter 8: Play

      46

      Chapter 9: Professions

      52

      Chapter 10: Progressions

      57

      Conclusion: Plan

      60

      BMG Action Plan/Success Schedule

      61

      Praise for Dr. Moore

      62

      About the Author

      65

      Black Math Genius

      66

      Acknowledgements

      I became a great teacher by learning from great teachers. Dr. Freya Anderson Rivers (Mama Freya) was my first mentor and a master teacher. The family’s biggest supporter, my daddy, Griffin Rivers. One of the smartest people I know and the person that I hope so many of our children will emulate, Marion Greenup. Dr. Carol Lee of Betty Shabazz International Charter School. The elders from whom I’ve learned so much: Drs. Asa Hilliard, Molefi Asante, Maulana Karenga, Harriette McAdoo, Linda James Myers, and many others.

      Family

      My biggest fan and supporter: my mom, Debra Moore; my husband, Shunta Rhodes; my daughter, Terriyah Clark; my nieces, nephews, and cousins, Dareonna, Aminah, Ava, Ryhana Coleman, Diana Cordell, Tatyana Moore, Olevia Fuller, Winslow Fuller III, Nia Valdez, Lashawn Rivers, Julian Moore, Jaylin Moore, Jaloni Moore, Jayden Haynes, Kyle Moore, Rahkim McCauley, Aubrey McCauley, Robert Moore, Austin Davis, Erica Moore, June Moore, LaShawn Mosley, Tangier Moore, Asha Hawkins-Rivers, Kasi Hawkins-Rivers, Ausar Kyles; my siblings, LaDonna, Tomorrow, Jessie, Winslow, and LaMona. My aunts, Patricia Davis, Julia Johnson, Shirley Moore, Marilyn Moore, Tangy Moore. My son, Tevin Jones. Dejerea Kizzy Calhoun. Yahriel Walton. Taylon Phelps.

      Nicole Jones. Zuri Byers.

      2

      Foreword

      Dr. Lamailede Assata Moore is Black Math Genius. She walks in the footsteps of Imhotep, always creating and innovating new and exciting ways of mathematical engagement for students, teachers and parents. Never say you do not like math because she will prove you wrong. It becomes a favorite subject when she is at the helm. Anticipation for What comes next? and excitement to begin are the feelings for math that cannot be controlled.

      Dr. Moore has shared her brilliance since 1995 with students attending Sankofa Shule, an educational powerhouse as named by the U.S. News and World Report. By racing cars and having fun, students were able to compute a calculus problem by third grade.

      She honed her skills with master teachers like Dr. Shabaaz of Clark Atlanta University who, at that time, produced 90% of all Black math PHDs in the country and I think she is trying to break his record. Dr. Moore has written three volumes of math curriculum, African Mathematical Genius Giri So (Volume 1), Benne So (Volume 2) and Bolo So (Volume 3) along with her newest, Black Math Genius. She continues to write and create ways to enjoy mathematics.

      Her mind runs 24/7 only occasionally stopping a few hours for sleep. Dr. Moore writes, computes, solves and recreates real and imaginary problems looking to find solutions to world problems. She strongly believes in MAATIAN ethics and actively practices the principles of the Nguzo Saba. Dr. Moore is a conscious, moral and humane person who supports family, community and the Diaspora. She is Black Math Genius, but not only a genius in math, a multi-talented genius.

      Use this book as a resource to do what she has done with a multitude of students -

      bring out their mathematical genius and help them reach their maximum potential.

      Dr. Freya A. Rivers

      Former Superintendent & Founder

      Sankofa Shule

      3

      Introduction

      I have never encountered any children in any group who are not geniuses. There is no mystery on how to teach them. The first thing you do is treat them like human beings and the second thing you do is love them. -Asa Hilliard III.

      All children have genius in them. My journey as an educator started with the 1995-96

      school year. I was a third year engineering student at Michigan State University and started volunteering at a charter school in Lansing, Michigan. The school, Sankofa Shule, was led by Dr. Freya Rivers. I started by teaching the children technology and Kiswahili. From Dr. Rivers, I learned the importance of teaching children their history, but more importantly, I learned how to teach children to reach their maximum potential -

      by believing in their ability to exceed expectations.

      Dr. Rivers was like the Steve Jobs of education. She was a visionary that gave her teachers the freedom to go big with their students. And with that freedom, as a volunteer, I went bananas! I started teaching students the same math, physics, and engineering concepts I was learning in my college courses. My students at the time were in fourth through sixth grades. I had no formal education as a teacher, I had no limiting expectations of students, I had the freedom to introduce students to whatever concepts I wanted. This was a perfect combination to create engaging lessons that were advanced, rigorous, fun, and applicable to the real world. The students ate it up.

      The more I gave the students, the more they wanted. They were building their own websites in the late 90’s using HTML code. They were turning in their homework as email attachments using AOL and creating PowerPoint presentations of their mathematics work. As invited guests of Bowling Green University, my students attended Physics Day at Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH. We went on academic enrichment trips from Chicago to Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Detroit and Virginia, visiting museums and applying mathematical concepts. We went on an extensive two week trip to Egypt, immersing students in not only the culture but studying the mathematics of the pyramids, doing conversions with distance and time, etc. They took AP Physics and passed the mathematics entrance exam into Lansing Community College. They did all this before graduating eighth grade. They showed me that with the right instruction, all children are geniuses.

      This was not a program only for select students. This instruction was given to all students. I can’t recall who had IEPs and who didn’t. I approached each student with the belief that each one of them would pick up on the concepts I presented. And they did! I would spend the next twenty-six years going through classrooms with this same 4

      expectation of students - you can learn whatever I put in front of you, I don’t care who you are, where you come from, or what challenges you may have.

      After leaving Sankofa Shule, I worked with Native American, Hispanic, and White students throughout Michigan. I spent time with the Detroit Area Pre College Engineering Program (DAPCEP). I was also the Program Coordinator for the WIMS

      (Wireless Integrated Microsystems) For Teens at MSU and the University of Michigan.

      When I left Michigan, I

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