The goal of Mathematics Across the Community College Curriculum (MAC³) is to create a mathematically literate society that ensures a workforce equipped to compete in a technologically advanced global economy. This will be accomplished by training math and non-math faculty across the disciplines to create, evaluate and modify projects that incorporate mathematics. As a result, community college students throughout the nation will be offered opportunities to deepen and reinforce the mathematics they have learned in their math classes, apply it in context, and understand its greater importance and application in their lives.

The project's workshops make mathematical literacy a more welcome and indispensable part of the two-year college curriculum in the United States. In the workshops, math and non-math faculty across the disciplines create, evaluate and modify projects that incorporate mathematics across disciplines. Half-day regional workshops, four-day summer or winter institutes and traveling workshops support faculty, nationwide, in integrating mathematics into their curricula. The project heightens awareness among two-year college faculty of the important role two-year colleges play in creating a numerate society. The project also creates and disseminates exemplary projects and courses that integrate mathematics into all disciplines and offers a support system for community colleges integrating math across the disciplines.

This project is being led by The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) in partnership with Edmonds Community College, Seattle Central Community College, and Miami Dade College. Together we plan to implement a national dissemination project that will make mathematical literacy a more welcome and indispensable part of the two-year college curriculum in the United States.