PROVIDENCE – Greg Greco, a teacher at The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Providence, has won a Math Hero Award from aerospace giant Raytheon Co.
Greco was one of 32 teachers from across the country who were selected from a pool of 160 nominees to receive the award, which was given to recognize “their efforts in engaging students in math through interactive and creative learning programs,” the company said in a news release. The teachers were nominated by parents, facility and students.
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Greco will receive a $2,500 award and a matching grant of $2,500 for The Met. “Raytheon applauds the winners of the Math Hero Awards for making math a fun and challenging pursuit for their students,” Kristin Hilf, Raytheon’s vice president of public affairs, said in a statement.
In an e-mail, Greco said he was “grateful to Raytheon for supporting the critical skill development in mathematics and science that encourage teachers to pursue creative methods to achieve these goals.”
“Being at a school which does not have a specific math curriculum really forces you to think what math skills are truly critical for students in order to succeed in life,” he said. “This real world approach enables me as a teacher to creatively address these critical needs and guide students in acquiring the math literacy skills they need to succeed.”
Indeed, Greco has shown creativity in teaching his students. On one occasion, he took a group of students to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., to show them the ways mathematics relates to baseball. He has also created a half-dozen math workshops with various focuses, including financial literacy and the political system.
Raytheon is now accepting nominations for the 2009 Math Heroes Awards, which is part of a Raytheon initiative called MathMovesU, at www.mathmovesu.com.
Big Picture Learning, a nonprofit educational organization founded in Providence, now has more than 60 schools in the United States (including the six-school Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Providence) plus partner organizations abroad. For more information, visit BigPicture.org or TheMetSchool.org.
