Mission Statement

The Baltimore Algebra Project is a democratic, student-run and organized program mainly focused on the one-on-one tutoring of math at the middle and high school levels. Our mission is to carve a community of leaders as well as exhibit leadership while remaining committed to the education of those in need of advancements in their socioeconomic status.
The Algebra Project's goal is threefold:
1. To benefit clients by
· Strengthening their math literacy and test scores of adolescents in order to promote advancements in socioeconomic status.
· Instilling the “each one-teach-one mentality” into clients by staying committed to tutoring in a one-to-one atmosphere.
· Establishing a successful model of high school and college students invested in children from their home community.
2. To benefit tutors by
· Putting them in leadership positions.
· Strengthening their math skills through teaching others
· Giving them a “real job” experience
3. To benefit the larger community by
· Advocating for students and for those parties who become situationally related to the BAP's goal.
· Recruiting high school graduates to attempt mathematics or science degrees in college and to teaching as a profession
· Developing a community culture of math literacy through young people’s collaboration, as opposed to the view that math is an adult-imposed obstacle.
· Establishing a successful model of a student-ran organization that is economically viable. This entails evolution of democratic decision-making implementation processes that are controlled by the young people themselves. We also increase awareness of how collaborative intellectual effort can help solve community problems.