Discrete Mathematics Instruction in a Cooperative Problem- Solving Mode

科罗拉多州立大学寻求资金， 项目：离散数学教学合作 问题解决模式。 发展的理念， 项目建议离散数学 成为中学课程的一部分， 课程和评价标准中概述的 全国教师理事会学校数学 数学 PI建议通过该项目， 制定并实施课程序列， 中学数学必修课 教师 该课程将在一个合作的团队授课 数学教师学习/问题解决模式 接受过特别指导的成员，以及 具有丰富教学经验的研究生， 前高中教师。 该项目还将 强调数学写作和模型选择 教学格式。 我们的学生将采取 本课程有一个必要的实验室，其中：他们将 数学教与学的研究 这些模式;他们将在一个教学助理 在离散数学的大一课程由相同的 教师团队;并合作，他们将开发 初级课程中使用的教学模块 它也可以用于高中班级， 修改. 因此，副教授将获得 离散数学的知识和经验， 合作学习，在复杂问题解决中 策略，并在数学学科的写作 作为教师和学习者。 在职教师将 邀请参加课程并制作项目， 自己的班级。 教师培训内容 也将对教师开放。 该项目很容易复制， 传播，并有可能成为一个模式， 内容和指导不仅为准备 教师，而是为了所有人的数学教学 学生在大学一级使用替代格式 的指令。 科罗拉多州立大学支持该项目， 提供总成本的40%。

Colorado State University seeks funding for a three-year project: Discrete Mathematics Instruction in a Cooperative Problem Solving Mode. The idea for the development of the project is the recommendation that Discrete Mathematics become a part of the secondary school curriculum, as outlined in the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The PI proposes through this project to develop and implement a course sequence in discrete mathematics required of secondary mathematics preservice teachers. The course will be team-taught in a cooperative learning/problem solving mode by mathematics faculty members who will have received special instruction, and two graduate students who have extensive teaching experience as former high school teachers. The project will also emphasize writing in mathematics and model alternative instructional formats. The preservice students will take the course with a required lab in which: they will be studying about the teaching and learning of mathematics in these modes; they will be assistants in the teaching of a freshman course in discrete mathematics taught by the same faculty team; and cooperatively they will develop instructional modules to be use in the elementary course which can also be used in high school classes with minor modifications. Thus, the preservice teachers will gain knowledge and experience in discrete mathematics, in cooperative learning, in complex problem solving strategies, and in writing in the mathematics discipline both as teachers and learners. Inservice teachers will be invited to take the courses and to produce projects for their own classes. The training components for faculty will also be open to area teachers. The project is one which can be easily replicated and disseminated and has the potential to become a model for content and instruction not only for the preparation of teachers, but for the teaching of mathematics for all students at the collegiate level using alternative formats of instruction. Colorado State University is supporting the project by providing 40% of the total cost.