Mathematical Sciences: MAA Curriculum Action Project

该项目将为启动美国数学协会(MAA)课程行动项目的规划活动提供支持。该项目是一项综合性的全国性努力，旨在刺激和扩大加强本科生数学科学的努力。规划期的主要目标是制定和传播本科数学的智力议程，以指导国家科学基金会、MAA和更广泛的数学界。第二个目标是在数学界内部以及与许多外部团体就这一议程展开广泛的对话，这些团体本身的努力与大学数学有着松散的联系。该项目的长期目标是促进课程改革；确定和宣传有效创新的范例；重塑教师态度；提高量化素养；并使评估与适当的课程目标保持一致。《行动纲领》将召集一系列焦点小组，以帮助确定问题和建议，将召集其29个区域科室开展基层讨论，并将编写一份报告供广泛分发。MAA计划在接下来的几年里延长这一项目，以帮助推动大学数学有效方法的广泛实施。

This project will provide support for planning activities to launch the Curriculum Action Project of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). This project is a comprehensive national effort to stimulate and amplify efforts to strengthen the mathematical sciences at the undergraduate level. The primary objective of the planning period is to develop and disseminate an intellectual agenda for undergraduate mathematics that can guide the National Science Foundation, the MAA, and the broader mathematical community. A secondary objective is to initiate a broad-based dialogue about this agenda both within the mathematics community and with the many external constituencies whose own efforts are loosely linked to collegiate mathematics. The project's long-term goals are to promote curriculum reform; to identify and publicize examples of effective innovation; to reshape faculty attitudes; to improve quantitative literacy; and to align assessment with appropriate curriculum objectives. The MAA will convene a series of focus groups to help identify issues and recommendations, will enlist its twenty- nine regional sections to initiate grass-root discussions, and will prepare a report for wide distribution. The MAA plans to extend this project in subsequent years to help promote widespread implementation of effective approaches to collegiate mathematics.