Improving and Implementing Technology in Calculus with Advanced Placement Teachers: A National Force for Change

克莱姆森大学基金会将进行为期四年的 计划开发可用于培训AP的材料 微积分教师，并帮助他们成功地实施 在微积分中使用图形计算器 指导。 将编制四套材料： 一套参考资料，B）一套研讨会材料，c）a 一组教学实例，以及d）一组原型 测试项目。 哪些领域的微积分材料 微积分的重要性 AP微积分教学大纲中的概念， 在绘制图表时，概念可能会发生重大变化 计算器，并且当前可用的 参考资料没有充分探讨使用 图形计算器的概念。 克莱姆森大学，作为AP微积分阅读的网站， 将使用开发的材料创建一个350人的干部队伍， 高中和大学的数学老师，他们自己是AP 微积分读者，谁将受到培训和装备精良， AP微积分研讨会领导人的国家团队。 的 培训将包括为期9天的夏季学院 在四年的时间里。 预计在 未来四年，这些研讨会的领导人将提供超过 1000个车间， 一千个第二波微积分老师 重点是 微积分图形计算器的实现 课程，因为大学的AP微积分委员会 董事会已发表政策声明，大意是 从1993年5月开始（1995年5月），微积分AB和 微积分BC考试将包含的问题， 科学（图形）计算器是必要的 优势的 克莱姆森大学，大学理事会，教育考试 服务、惠普和德州仪器 成本分摊占NSF预算的119%。 该项目有可能改善概念 和解决问题的内容 微积分课程，提高微积分教师的 将计算技术纳入其 课程 如果有任何机构能够影响 将技术引入中学教学 学校微积分，它很可能是大学理事会。 和 Kenelly博士与AP项目的联系以及他长期以来 大学理事会的经验是这方面的关键优势 提议

Clemson University Foundation will conduct a four-year program to develop materials that can be used to train AP calculus teachers and to help them successfully implement the use of graphing calculators in their calculus instruction. Four sets of materials will be developed: a) a set of references, b) a set of workshop materials, c) a set of instructional examples, and d) a set of prototypic test items. Criteria for which areas of calculus materials will be developed are the importance of the calculus concepts in the AP calculus syllabus, instruction of the concepts may be significantly changed when graphing calculators are used, and the set of currently available reference materials does not sufficiently explore the use of graphing calculators in teaching the concepts. Clemson University, as the site of the AP Calculus reading, will use the materials developed to create a cadre of 350 high school and college mathematics teachers, themselves AP calculus readers, who will be trained and well-equipped as a national team of AP Calculus workshop leaders. The training will consist of 9 days of summer institutes held over the four year period. It is anticipated that in the next four years, these workshops leaders will deliver over a thousand workshops for approximately twenty thousand second-wave calculus teachers. The emphasis is on the implementation of the graphing calculator in calculus curriculum because the AP Calculus Committee of the College Board has issued policy statements to the effect that beginning in May 1993 (May 1995), both the Calculus AB and Calculus BC examinations will contain questions for which a scientific (graphing) calculator is necessary of advantageous. Clemson University, the College Board, Educational Testing Service, Hewlett Packard, and Texas Instruments cost-sharing account for 119% of the NSF budget. The project has the potential for improving the conceptual and problem-solving content of existing high school calculus courses through enhancing calculus teachers' capacities to incorporate computing technologies into their courses. If any institution can have an impact on introducing technology into the teaching of secondary school calculus, it may well be the College Board. And Dr. Kenelly's connections with the AP Program and his long experience with the College Board are key strengths of this proposal.