Leadership Program in Discrete Mathematics--Phase II

罗格斯大学将进行一个为期三年半的项目，通过12名数学教师在离散数学及其应用方面提高340名K。此外，约3400名第二批教师将从参与者那里获得在职服务，通过这一项目，总共有3700多名教师得到加强。三个周期的教师将参加为期三周的暑期学院，四个学年的后续会议和第二个暑期学院。对于高中和中学数学教师，第二次暑期研修班为期两周；对于中、小学数学专家，第二次暑期研修班为期一周。大约115名教师将参加每两年的周期。此外，每年还将挑选20名学员参加为期7天的领导力培训方案，然后预期他们将在下一年以两人一组的方式在各自的学区举办四个在职讲习班。离散数学主题将包括图形的应用；图形和算法；组合学、概率和统计；数学公式和公平性；离散动力系统；迭代和分形学。参与者最多可获得6个研究生学分。这个项目是由离散数学和理论计算机科学中心(DIMACS)共同发起的，该中心是由罗格斯大学和普林斯顿大学、美国电话电报公司贝尔实验室和贝尔通信研究公司组成的NSF科学和技术中心。这一群体处于离散数学的前沿，这让该领域的知名研究人员感到兴奋，他们中的许多人也擅长与非研究人员交流他们的数学。罗格斯大学、蒙特克莱尔州立学院、Bellcore和Bell Labs的费用分担占NSF预算的28%。

Rutgers University will conduct a three-and-one-half-year project to enhance 340 K through 12 mathematics teachers in discrete mathematics and its applications. In addition, approximately 3400 second-wave teachers will receive inservice from participants, for a total of over 3700 teachers enhanced through this project. Three cycles of teachers will attend a three-week summer institute, four follow-up sessions during the school year and a second summer institute. For high school and middle school mathematics teachers, the second summer institute will be two weeks in length; for middle and elementary mathematics specialists, the second summer institute will be one week long. Approximately 115 teachers will participate in each two-year cycle. In addition twenty participants will be selected each year to attend a seven-day leadership training program and will then be expected to work in teams of two to provide four inservice workshops in their school districts the following year. Discrete mathematics topics will include applications of graphs; graphs and algorithms; combinatorics, probability and statistics; mathematical formulations and fairness; discrete dynamical systems; and iteration and fractals. Participants may earn up to six graduate credits. This project is co-sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), an NSF Science and Technology Center made up of a consortium of Rutgers and Princeton Universities, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Bell Communications Research. This group is at the cutting edge of discrete mathematics, offering the excitement of prominent researchers in the field, many of whom are also excellent at communicating their mathematics to non-researchers. Rutgers University, Montclair State College, Bellcore and Bell Labs cost-sharing accounts for 28% of the NSF budget.