Abstract
This essay focuses on the challenges of implementing effectivemathematics and science programs in in secondary schools in urban Americaand Sub-Saharan Africa. A successful approach for meeting these challengesis considered which has first been introduced by the New Jersey Center forTeaching and Learning. This approach is based on maximizing the connectionsbetween mathematics and science, on developing an open-source software containingthe entire curriculum and loading it into a SMART board computer. Integral to the methodology used is the presentation of questionswith multiple choice answers. The technology implemented enables studentsto see the distribution of their answers (without seeing the correct one), andthe teacher engages them in discussion and debates about the merits of various answers. The success of the educating-the-educators model supported by the implementation ofthe SMART system in both urban America and in The Gambia provides a model that can bereplicated in diverse settings, and thus should be of interest to the world communityof mathematics and science educators.ACM Computing Classification System (1998): K.3.1.
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