MCTM Continues to Build a Foundation

Help the MCTM Foundation meet a $5,000 Challenge Grant for as little as $10.00.

See how far we've come.

Funding may support:

Recruitment /retention assistance for math teachers, schools and district.
Acquisition of proper teaching tools and materials.
Teachers to attend external learning opportunities.
Peer networks within schools, districts and statewide.
A Math Mentor Network.
Business and industry partnerships, to provide practical applications.

The Foundation is now accepting applications from beginning and mid-career teachers for financial support to participate in the annual MCTM Spring Conference.

Application materials can be downloaded here. The Word document can be edited and completed (together with required photo) to either send in via surface mail to the address on the form or it can be returned via email to putnamw@rconnect.com

Support Application Forms
Editable Word Document
PDF Document

The Foundation is now accepting applications for:

The Arnie Cutler Scholarship
for
Mathematics Course Work for Middle Grades Teachers

Purpose: The purpose of this grant is to provide financial support for improving teachers’ understanding of mathematics by completing course work in mathematics. Scholarships with a maximum of $800 each will be awarded to persons currently teaching in grades 6 – 8.

For more information and details of how to apply, download the information and application form:

Cutler Scholarship Application (Fill-In Word Document)
Cutler Scholarship Application (PDF Document)

About the Foundation Board:
The MCTM Foundation Governing Board is comprised of at least six members appointed by the MCTM President and Executive Committee to each serve a three year term. For 2009-10, the members of the Foundation Governing Board are

  • Ed Anderson
  • Jan Cutler
  • Jim Foley
  • Deb Guthrie
  • Bill Johnson, chair
  • Mary Kennedy
  • Bill Putnam
  • Joe Van Wie
  • Ken Vos
  • Cathy Wick
  • Bonnie Hagelberger
  • Ellen Delaney
  • Tom Muchlinski

Credit card donations are easy with the On-line Donation Form.

Donations can be made in the following levels:
Ada Lovelace (1815 - 1852) $1-$49
"The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves."
Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (1170-1250) $50-$99
"How many pairs of rabbits can be bred from one pair in a year?"
Grace Murray Hopper (Admiral) (1906-1992) $100-$249
"From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855) $250-$499
"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries."
Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) $500-$999
"Say what you know, do what you must, come what may or....It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul."
Benoit Mandelbrot (1924 - ) $1000 and up
"Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines."

For more information about the MCTM Foundation or to receive a copy of our brochure contact the Foundation Governing Board Chair, Bill Johnson, at wedge1973@yahoo.com