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The Flying University Project is dedicated to the building of parallel institutions for education for children from minority and underserved populations in the United States. We seek to strengthen marginalized communities in these difficult times.
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Book 4 - Elementary School Math for a Flying University
By Clarence ThompsonI am pleased to announce that we now have Book 4 of our Elementary School Math series online. It can be found under our "Math Resources" page on this site. We will probably make a few minor modifications to the book over the next week, mainly consisting of adding s…
Conceptualizing Rounding and Estimating
By Clarence ThompsonIn our North Portland teaching group, some of our older kids have advanced beyond the written materials we have published to date, so we are scrambling a bit to provide them with materials appropriate to their age level and to the topics to which they are being exposed in scho…
Knowing Numbers ≠ Getting Fleeced
By Clarence ThompsonWe who are part of the Flying University Project have been very busy this past week. It looks like at least two teaching venues will be opening up in East Portland this month, and a new teacher has joined us. As a result, I don't have a lot of time to write a lengthy pos…


