Our Story & Impact
At a Title I school on the southside of San Antonio, an AP® Stats teacher threw out his curriculum and made lessons on topics his students actually cared about: gerrymandering, medicine, online dating, sports, and more. That year, in a region where traditionally 2% of students passed the AP® exam, 42% of his students passed.
The teacher created skewthescript.org (named after their class motto) and posted the lessons online for free. Within weeks, thousands of teachers across the country were using them. Now, Skew The Script is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that offers free, nonpartisan, relevant math lessons for AP Statistics, Algebra I, and Algebra II (with more courses coming soon).
Our mission is to provide free , nonpartisan, relevant math lessons that…
Boost math engagement and achievement among students from underserved backgrounds
Prepare all students to think critically as citizens
Our Mission
Teachers
Our Reach
20,000
Students
400,000
Lesson Downloads
300,000
Lesson Video Views
1 Million
Page Views
2.5 Million
Our Approach
No one cares about the time it takes to fill up a swimming pool of a certain volume. No one cares about the correlation between hand width and height. No one cares, genuinely cares, about the contexts that fill the pages of most math textbooks. The result: Students disengage. They learn math at a shallow level. Worst of all, they leave school unprepared to apply quantitative reasoning to the complex problems of the real world. We decided to change that.
We make lessons that are …
Relevant: Our lessons tackle authentic problems with real data and real implications. The math isn’t a side-show. Rather, the math helps students gain genuine insight into the topics our lessons cover.
Usable: Our materials are intuitive and aligned with state standards, allowing teachers to easily place our lessons in their unit plans.
Nonpartisan: Our goal is to heighten students’ discourse and reasoning as citizens - not to impose our own beliefs on them. Lessons are reviewed by a committee of politically diverse math teachers for balance and fairness. Read more in our letter to parents.