Empowering Teachers: Mathematical Inquiry Through Technology

BBN系统和技术公司将开展一项为期三年半的计划，以开发和评估一项全面的教师增强计划，以促进中学数学课堂上数学探究教学的策略、艺术和实践。该计划采用交互式计算机软件和视频技术作为培养研究性学习和教学技能的主要教学工具。该计划将包括四门研究生水平课程，其中两门，关于数据的推理和数学探索与实验，是最近完成的教师增强拨款所开发的。动画几何和互动代数这两门新课程将广泛利用计算机活动来支持探究性教学。这些课程将在马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校进行实地测试；剑桥大学莱斯利学院；以及教育合作组织。将对教师因这些课程而改变的程度进行仔细的记录。这些课程将得到马萨诸塞州教育部的认可，并由马萨诸塞州教育电信公司在全州范围内传播。国家传播将通过有关组织会议的会前讲习班，例如NCTM或AERA。超过240名中学教师将参与这些课程的开发和试点。Logo计算机系统，关键课程出版社，EDCO， MCET和BBN的费用分摊占NSF预算的7%。创造性地利用最新技术开发提高教师能力的材料确实是可取的。BBN生产的产品处于技术的最前沿。马萨诸塞州教育电信公司提供了一个很好的途径来传播这些课程材料。

BBN Systems and Technologies will conduct a three-and-one- half-year program to develop and assess a comprehensive teacher enhancement program to foster the strategies, art, and practice of mathematical inquiry teaching in middle school mathematics classrooms. The program employs interactive computer software and video technology as key instructional tools for fostering inquiry learning and teaching skills. The program will comprise four graduate- level courses, two of which, Reasoning About Data and Mathematical Exploration and Experiment, were developed in a recently completed teacher enhancement grant. The two new courses, Animated Geometry and Interactive Algebra, will draw extensively on computer activities for supporting inquiry teaching. The courses will be field-tested at the University of Massachusetts, Boston; Lesley College, Cambridge; and the Educational Collaborative. Careful documentation of the extent to which teachers change as a result of these courses will be undertaken. The courses will be endorsed by the Massachusetts Department of Education and disseminated statewide by the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications. National dissemination will be instantiated through pre-conference workshops of relevant organizational meetings such as NCTM or AERA. Over 240 middle school teachers will be involved in the development and piloting of these courses. Logo Computer Systems, Key Curriculum Press, EDCO, MCET and BBN cost-sharing accounts for 7% of the NSF budget. Developing teacher enhancement materials which creatively make use of the latest technology is indeed desirable. BBN produces products that are at the cutting edge of technology. And the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications provides and excellent avenue for dissemination of the course materials so developed.