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Join date: Nov 3, 2025

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Jaliyla Fraser, is the founder and CEO of Fraser’s Mathematics Solutions (FMS) and the visionary behind the DOPE MATH® Educator brand. A nationally recognized math educator, curriculum developer, textbook editor, and speaker, she holds a B.S. in Secondary Math Education from Temple University and an M.A. in Math Education from Columbia University.

With over a decade of experience, Jaliyla has helped hundreds of teachers, schools, and districts design equity-driven math programs. A former high school math and physics teacher, she became district Math Supervisor within five years and later served on the NJDOE Computer Science Advisory Board.

Through FMS, Jaliyla has supported 55+ schools, 15 districts, 485 educators, 145 families, and 1,260 students, empowering math communities nationwide to teach with rigor, relevance, and joy.

Posts (16)

Sep 30, 2026 ∙ 3 min

If This Conversation Ends With the Video, We Missed the Point

The State of Mathematics Education Roundtables were created to make important conversations available beyond the room where they were recorded. I have spent a long time on this initiative, figuring out why it exists, building the structure behind it, inviting people whose perspectives I believed needed to be in the room, and imagining what could happen when those perspectives finally met. The part I care about most is what happens after you watch. A Video Can Be Watched and Forgotten We have...

Sep 30, 2026 ∙ 3 min

When the Conversation Leaves the Room

A conversation changes once other people are allowed into it. At some point it stops belonging only to the people who sat around the table and starts belonging to everyone who encounters it afterward. That matters to me because the State of Mathematics Education Initiative was never meant to be a private exchange among a small group of people with access to one another. I wanted to build these Roundtables because I had become increasingly aware of how many important conversations happen in...

Sep 30, 2026 ∙ 3 min

I Do Not Need These Roundtables to End in Agreement

It is easy to want a public conversation to feel complete. You want the strongest ideas to land, the audience to understand where the discussion is going, and everyone to walk away feeling like the conversation arrived somewhere. When I think about the State of Mathematics Education Roundtables, I understand that instinct, and I also have to remind myself that it can get in the way of the kind of dialogue I actually want us to have. This conversation does not need to end neatly. The...