History

The Abelian Group was founded in 1981 as a resource for adults who needed to learn mathematics but who, for various reasons,  didn’t want to sit in a classroom again. We soon found that our approach-- building understanding from basic principles, and wrapping that in history-- worked well not only with adults, but with essentially everybody old enough to think abstractly.  And so began our gratifying work with middle-school students:  sixth grade is the perfect time to begin truly learning mathematics.

In 2008, we moved the office from Strawberry Creek Design Center to 474 Michigan Ave.  In 2012 we opened a branch office in South Berkeley.