Support for the Mathematical Sciences Education Board

这笔赠款提供21万美元，用于支持 美国国家科学院数学科学教育委员会 科学（MSEB）。 MSEB成立于1985年， 实现全面和深远变革的任务 美国各级数学教育。 的 系统地分析和解决 国家的需要是在30万美元赠款的帮助下启动的， 理工科教育与师资分工 和增强，其中大部分应用于课程研究。 的 理事会现寻求对下列核心活动的支助： 全国数学教育体系;识别 关键的知识和政策问题以及规划和激励 就这些问题协调工作;综合现有的最佳想法; 并将这些结果传达给州、地方和联邦教育部门 和科学机构，家长团体和公众。 的 这一多年期企业的产品将是定期报告， 立场文件、各种会议和大会，以及提交大会的几份报告。 民族 资金将用于专业人员的薪金和工资， 支助工作人员、顾问酬金和借用津贴 工作人员和董事会成员的差旅费。 应当指出，核心费用估计为750 000美元， 这方面财政承诺（其中一些是在 已经或正在从9个国家获得多年连续赠款 其他联邦机构。 由于基本的重要性， 数学到科学和工程以及NSF的各个方面 这项赠款由各局共同资助， 生物、行为和社会科学、计算机和信息 科学与工程、工程学、地球科学、数学和 自然科学、科学和工程教育。

This grant provides $210,000 in support of core projects of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board of the National Academy of Sciences (MSEB). MSEB was established in October, 1985, with the mandate of effecting comprehensive and far-reaching changes in mathematics education at all levels within the United States. The complex undertaking of systematically analyzing and addressing the nation's needs was launched with the assistance of a $300,000 grant from Science and Engineering Education and Division of Teacher Preparation and Enhancement, most of which was applied to a curriculum study. The Board now seeks support for the following core activities: analysis of the mathematics education system across the nation; identification of critical intellectual and policy issues and planning and stimulation of coordinated work on these issues; synthesis of the best ideas available; and communication of these results to state, local and federal education and science agencies, to parent groups, and to the general public. The products of this multi-year enterprise will be periodic reports and position papers, meetings and conferences, and several Reports to the Nation. Funds will be used for salaries and wages of professional and support staff, honoraria for consultants and stipends for borrowed personnel, and travel expenses for staff and Board members. It should be noted that core expenses are estimated at $750,000 per year, and that financial commitments for this purpose (some of them in multi-year continuing grants) have been or are being obtained from nine other federal agencies. Because of the fundamental importance of mathematics to science and engineering and to all aspects of NSF initiatives, this grant is being jointly funded by the Directorates for Biological, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Engineering, Geosciences, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Science and Engineering Education.