Join us for a screening of the new documentary “Counted Out”!

Watch the trailer

This event is full. If you sign up, you will be added to the waitlist.

Sunday, January 12th, 1-3 pm
Mission Theater, Portland, OR

• Free event (200 spots +join the waiting list)
• Free concessions (up to $10) for first 100 people to arrive
• OCTM book giveaways: “Radical Equations” by Bob Moses
• Post-film discussion
• We welcome all preK-16 educators, specialists, administrators, and math equity advocates!

About the film:

In the 21st century, fueled by technology, data, and algorithms,
math determines who has the power to shape our world.

Counted Out investigates the biggest crises of our time—political polarization, racial and economic inequity, a global pandemic, and climate change—through an unexpected lens: math.

In our current information economy, math is everywhere. The people we date, the news we see, the influence of our votes, the candidates who win elections, the education we have access to, the jobs we get—all of it is underwritten by an invisible layer of math that few of us understand, or even notice.

But whether we know it or not, our numeric literacy—whether we can speak the language of math—is a critical determinant of social and economic power.

Through a mosaic of personal stories, expert interviews, and scenes of math transformation in action, Counted Out shows what’s at risk if we keep the status quo. Do we want an America in which most of us don’t consider ourselves “math people”? Where math proficiency goes down as students grow up? Or do we want a country where everyone can understand the math that undergirds our society—and can help shape it?

The film is dedicated to Bob Moses, the civil rights leader and MacArthur genius who saw math access
as the civil rights issue of our time,and whose work we follow in some of the last filmed interviews of his life.