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(MSEB)数学科学教育委员会的核心项目。MSEB成立于1985年10月，其任务是对美国各级数学教育进行全面而深远的变革。这项系统分析和解决国家需求的复杂工作是在科学和工程教育以及教师培训和提高司提供的30万美元赠款的帮助下启动的，其中大部分资金用于课程研究。委员会现在寻求对以下核心活动的支持：分析全国的数学教育系统；确定关键的智力和政策问题，并规划和促进在这些问题上的协调工作；综合现有的最佳想法；将这些结果传达给州、地方和联邦教育和科学机构、家长团体和普通公众。这一多年项目的产品将是定期报告和立场文件、会议和大会，以及向全国提交的几份报告。资金将用于专业和支助工作人员的薪金和工资、顾问的酬金和借调人员的津贴以及工作人员和董事会成员的旅费。应当指出，核心支出估计为每年75万美元，已经或正在从其他九个联邦机构获得为此作出的财政承诺(其中一些是多年期连续赠款)。由于数学对科学和工程以及对NSF倡议的所有方面的根本重要性，这笔赠款由生物、行为和社会科学、计算机和信息科学与工程、工程、地球科学、数学和物理科学以及科学和工程教育理事会共同资助。

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.