Madison Project Timeline

1956
Dr. Robert Davis observes students in Madison Junior High School in Syracuse, New York

 

1957
NSF funding for the Madison Project begins

 

1961
The Madison Project expands to Webster College, Saint Louis Missouri. Its main experimental schools were in Weston, Connecticut (Weston Elementary School) and Public Schools of Clayton, Missouri.

 

*1965
Summer workshop in Chicago

 

*1966
Workshops in New York, Los Angles, etc

 

1975
NSF funding ends

 

Post-1975
Many of the facilitator and participants of the grant continue to have a major impact on mathematics education.

 

*Approximate dates