Mathematics Teachers Preparation Improvement Project

数学教师准备提高项目

• 批准号: 9054583
• 负责人: Ruth Ann Meyer
• 金额: $ 42.63万
• 依托单位: Western Michigan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-01-01 至 1993-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9054583&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mathematics; Teachers; Preparation; Improvement; Project

This project will develop materials for two mathematics courses for preservice teachers, one course for teachers at the elementary-middle school level and one for teachers at the high school level. The related theme of the courses is teaching and learning with computing technology. The course for K-8 preservice teachers will center on probability and statistics. The materials development will include laboratory-based activities that integrate calculators and computers to motivate, enhance and reinforce the learning of probability and statistics. The course for secondary preservice teachers will involve students in active learning situations designed around cooperative and individual investigations of mathematical problems. Emphasis is placed on mathematical problem solving, mathematical modeling, and multiple representations of mathematics. Probability and statistics will be the setting for some of the problems. Computer technology is used to generate data, perform statistical analyses, sketch graphs, draw geometric figures, approximate solutions to equations, and carry out algorithms. The materials from both courses will be disseminated widely with a special focus on the teacher preparation institutions within Michigan. The NCTM Standards will be the basis for decisions about curriculum to be included and instructional strategies to be used. The project team will be supported by a team of advisors from other teacher education institutions within Michigan and from other states. The advisors have been selected for their expertise in technology, mathematics, and statistics. Teachers will also be involved as advisors in the project. The cost sharing will be 50% of the NSF funding for the project.

该项目将为职前教师编写两门数学课程，一门为小学和初中教师编写，另一门为高中教师编写。课程的相关主题是计算机技术的教与学。K-8职前教师的课程将以概率和统计为中心。教材的开发将包括以实验室为基础的活动，结合计算器和计算机来激励、加强和加强概率和统计的学习。为中学职前教师开设的课程将让学生参与主动学习情境的设计，围绕合作和个人调查数学问题。重点放在数学问题的解决，数学建模和数学的多重表示。概率和统计将是一些问题的背景。计算机技术用于生成数据、进行统计分析、绘制图形、绘制几何图形、近似求解方程和执行算法。这两门课程的材料将广泛传播，特别侧重于密歇根州的教师培训机构。NCTM标准将是决定纳入课程和使用教学策略的基础。项目团队将得到来自密歇根州和其他州的其他教师教育机构的顾问团队的支持。这些顾问是根据他们在技术、数学和统计学方面的专业知识选出的。教师也将作为顾问参与项目。费用分摊将是NSF项目资金的50%。