Collaborative Research: Connecting Elementary Mathematics Teaching to Real-World Issues

合作研究：将基础数学教学与现实世界问题联系起来

• 批准号: 2101463
• 负责人: Eva Thanheiser
• 金额: $ 94.05万
• 依托单位: Portland State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2101463&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Connecting; Elementary; Mathematics

There are long-standing calls to make mathematics more meaningful, relevant, and applicable both inside and outside of the K-12 classroom. In particular, there is a growing recognition that mathematics is a valuable tool for helping students understand important real-world issues that affect their lives and society. Further, mathematics can support students in becoming mathematically literate and engaged democratic citizens. Despite the increased interest in connecting mathematics to real-world issues in the classroom, many teachers feel unprepared to do so. This project will engage students and teachers in rich, real-world math tasks; will support future teachers and mathematics educators in adapting, designing, and implementing similar tasks; and will provide a basis for further research on the most effective ways to design and implement real-world tasks in the mathematics classroom.The three goals of the Connecting Elementary Mathematics to the World project are: (1) To explore how mathematics teachers adapt, design, and enact tasks that connect mathematics to the real world. We will study the teaching practices of the project team as they engage in this work in two summer camps and in elementary classrooms at two sites. (2) To develop a collection of exemplar tasks and rich records of practice for each task. These records of practice will detail the mathematical and real-world learning goals, background knowledge needed for both goals, common student responses, and videos or vignettes of the task in progress. A team of six teachers at two sites will be recruited to collaborate with the team throughout the project. Teachers will provide input and feedback on the design of, appropriateness of, and relevance of the tasks and the support materials needed to implement the real-world tasks. Initial tasks will be field tested with elementary students and additional tasks will be developed for subsequent week-long summer camps and for teaching in elementary classrooms. (3) To research both the development and enactment of these tasks. We will develop a theoretical framework for creating and implementing real-world tasks that can inform future practice and research in this area. The research products of this project will result in (a) an understanding of effective teaching and design practices for connecting mathematics to real-world issues, (b) a theoretical framework of how these practices are interconnected, and (c) how these practices differ from practices when teaching typical school mathematics tasks.The Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

长期以来，在K-12教室内外都有长期的呼吁，使数学更有意义，相关和适用。特别是，人们越来越认识到数学是帮助学生了解影响其生活和社会的重要现实问题的宝贵工具。此外，数学可以支持学生成为数学识字和敬业的民主公民。尽管有兴趣将数学与课堂上的现实世界问题联系起来，但许多老师却没有做好准备。该项目将吸引学生和老师执行丰富的现实数学任务；将支持未来的教师和数学教育者在适应，设计和实施类似任务方面；并将为在数学课堂中设计和实施现实世界任务的最有效方法的进一步研究提供基础。将基本数学连接到世界项目的三个目标是：（1）探索数学老师如何适应，设计并制定将数学连接到现实世界的任务。我们将研究项目团队的教学实践，因为他们在两个夏令营和两个地点的小学教室中从事这项工作。 （2）为每个任务开发示例任务和丰富的实践记录的集合。这些实践记录将详细介绍数学和现实世界的学习目标，目标所需的背景知识，常见的学生响应以及正在进行的任务的视频或小插图。将在整个项目中招募一个在两个站点的六个老师团队与团队合作。教师将提供有关任务的设计，适当性以及实施现实世界任务所需的支持材料的意见和反馈。最初的任务将对小学生进行现场测试，并将为后续的一周夏令营和在小学教室的教学开发其他任务。 （3）研究这些任务的发展和制定。我们将开发一个理论框架，用于创建和实施现实世界中的任务，这些任务可以为该领域的未来实践和研究提供信息。该项目的研究产品将导致（a）了解有效的教学和设计实践，以将数学连接到现实世界问题，（b）这些实践如何相互联系的理论框架；（c）这些实践有何不同从教学典型的学校数学任务时的实践中。发现研究PreK-12计划（DRK-12）试图通过研究通过研究来显着增强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的学习和教学，Prek-12学生和老师通过研究以及创新资源，模型和工具的开发。 DRK-12计划中的项目基于STEM教育和先前的研究和发展工作的基础研究，为拟议项目提供了理论和经验的理由。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并认为值得通过基金会的知识分子优点评估来支持。和更广泛的影响审查标准。