Engaging Mathematics

参与数学

• 批准号: 1322883
• 负责人: William David Burns
• 金额: $ 55万
• 依托单位: HARRISBURG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1322883&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engaging; Mathematics

The project Engaging Mathematics: Building a National Community of Practice, is a faculty development and dissemination initiative, which is expanding the work of the NSF funded project Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) by increasing the use of the SENCER model to create, implement, and sustain reforms in mathematics education. SENCER focuses on learning mathematics and science content through "real world" problems and engaging students in course work that is framed within complex civic issues. Engaging Mathematics is creating a wider community of mathematics scholars within SENCER, capable of implementing and sustaining curricular reforms and broadening SENCER impacts. The project offers a persistent and recurring program of national dissemination which includes developing assessment tools to monitor students' perceptions of the usefulness of mathematics, their interest and confidence in doing mathematics, the students' growth in knowledge content, and their ability to apply mathematics to better understand complex civic issues.Engaging Mathematics is a cooperative program between three lead institutions, Metropolitan State University, LaGuardia Community College, and the United States Military Academy and four partner institutions to develop and assess curricula that teach students mathematics through civic issues. Mathematics faculty not already affiliated with SENCER will be invited and encouraged to use the materials developed through the project and adapt them to their unique institutional needs.The project provides an opportunity to develop faculty capacity to connect learning in mathematics courses to real and relevant local, regional, national and global issues and thus greatly improve students' retention of specific mathematics concepts and skills, along with their understanding of the role of mathematical modeling and quantitative literacy in everyday life. Engaging Mathematics is producing adaptable mathematics curricula that use the framework of civic issues to study mathematics and its real-world applications and utilize active, inquiry-based pedagogies. The Engaging Mathematics community of practice is generating durable collaborations among faculty members and institutions, fostering cross-fertilization and adoption of innovative courses and practices, enabling effective assessment and disseminating materials to the larger mathematics education community. The impact of the project is helping students appreciate the value and power of mathematics, regardless of their fields of study, and to enable undergraduates to use skills and dispositions developed in these courses to have greater and more effective engagement with the complex civic issues that face them as members of society.

该项目吸引了数学：建立国家实践社区，是一项教师的发展和传播计划，该计划正在扩大NSF资助的项目科学教育的工作，从而通过增加使用SENCER模型来创建，实施，实施和维持Mathematics教育的改革，从而提高新的公民参与和职责（SENCER）。 Sencer专注于通过“现实世界”问题学习数学和科学内容，并吸引学生参加复杂的公民问题的课程工作。 参与数学正在在Sencer中创建更广泛的数学学者社区，能够实施和维持课程改革并扩大Sencer的影响。 该项目提供了一项持久而重复的民族传播计划，其中包括开发评估工具，以监控学生对数学有用性的看法，他们对进行数学的兴趣和信心，学生对知识内容的增长以及应用数学的能力以及他们应用数学的能力，以更好地了解复杂的公民学科。以及四个合作伙伴机构，用于开发和评估通过公民问题教学数学的课程。 数学教师将被邀请和鼓励使用通过项目开发的材料，并使他们适应其独特的机构需求。该项目提供了一个机会，提供了一个机会，可以发展能力，将数学课程中的学习联系起来，以与真实和相关的本地，地区，国家和全球问题以及对特定概念的概念和概念的范围进行构建，并从中努力，从而使他们对特定的数学构建概念和范围进行了范围，并将其及其概念性地培养。在日常生活中。 引人入胜的数学正在生产适应性的数学课程，该课程使用公民问题的框架来研究数学及其现实世界的应用，并利用基于询问的主动教学法。 引人入胜的数学社区是在教职员工和机构之间建立持久的合作，促进了交叉施用和采用创新的课程和实践，从而使有效的评估并将材料传播到更大的数学教育社区。 该项目的影响是帮助学生欣赏数学的价值和力量，无论其研究领域如何，并使本科生能够使用这些课程中开发的技能和倾向，以更大，更有效地参与与社会成员所面临的复杂的公民问题。