Software for Active Learning in Mathematics and Teacher Preparation

通过NCTM标准和MAA数学教师专业标准，数学教育者呼吁在各级数学教育中更积极地学习。本项目旨在为基础教育和商科专业的有限数学课程开发一种教学方法，以在课程和教学中实现这些标准的目标。课程材料包括积极和合作的学习技巧，写作，以及强调批判性思维的解决问题的方法。该软件保持了获奖的人文软件程序SEEN的结构，包括教授数学策略的教程，以及鼓励同伴合作的公告板。SEEN-MATH软件正在编写中，因此教程将通过图形和计算器功能等工具灌输Polya的问题解决模型。此外，为了培训和再培训数学教师，从而影响教育基础设施，小学教育和中学数学教育专业的学生正在使用SEEN-MATH，并在教师在职讲习班上介绍。允许他们使用Polya教程，并将软件（在其作者模式下）适应他们的学生和班级，作为主动学习的模型。

Mathematics educators, through the NCTM Standards and MAA Professional Standards for Teachers of Mathematics, call for more active learning at all levels of mathematics education. This project is developing a teaching approach for the finite mathematics course, taken by elementary education and business majors, which implements the goals of these standards in both curriculum and instruction. The course materials incorporate active and collaborative learning techniques, writing, and a problem-solving approach which emphasizes critical thinking. The software keep the structure of SEEN, an award-winning humanities software program, with tutorials that teach mathematical strategies plus a bulletin board that encourages peer collaboration. The SEEN-MATH software is being written so that the tutorial inculcates Polya's problem-solving model with tools such as graphing and calculator capabilities. In addition, to train and retrain mathematics teachers, thus affecting the educational infrastructure, SEEN-MATH is being used with elementary education and secondary mathematics education majors, and presented in an in-service workshops for teachers, allowing them to use the Polya tutorial and also adapt the software (in its author mode) to their students and classes as a model of active learning.