Mathematical Sciences: 1992-1994 Summer Mathematics Institutes for Minority Undergraduates

数学科学：1992-1994年少数民族本科生暑期数学学院

• 批准号: 9212889
• 负责人: Philip Uri Treisman
• 金额: $ 24.67万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-06-01 至 1995-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9212889&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mathematical; Sciences; 1992; 1994; Summer

The Summer Mathematics Institute for Minority Students is a six-week residential summer institute which each year will accommodate approximately 30-36 minority undergraduates from the United States and Puerto Rico. Each student participant will have completed two or more years of collegiate mathematics with distinction. The students will participate in two intensive seminars, chosen from at least four offered, which have been designed to enable them to explore a mathematical topic in depth and to experience the excitement of creating mathematics. A principal emphasis common to all seminars is helping students to develop increased fluency with mathematical language, both written and oral. The overall goal is to help the students make important transitions: from learning algorithms to creating algorithms, from learning definitions to recognizing the salient features of a mathematical landscape and creating definitions, from learning particular theorems and topics to exploiting the power of mathematical interconnectivity--that is, from learning mathematics to doing mathematics. The Institutes will be operated as a four-way joint project of the Departments of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Texas at Austin, the Professional Development Program at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Dana Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Texas at Austin. The Institutes will be held in alternate years at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Texas at Austin and will build on successful institutes held in 1989, 1990, and 1991. The Summer Institutes are conceived as part of a national strategy aimed at increasing the participation of historically under-represented minorities in mathematics and mathematics-dependent professions. The primary goal is to increase substantially the number of minority undergraduates pursuing careers in mathematics.

少数族裔学生夏季数学学院是一所为期六周的住宿暑期学院，每年可容纳来自美国和波多黎各约 30-36 名少数族裔本科生。 每个学生参与者都将以优异的成绩完成两年或两年以上的大学数学课程。 学生将参加两场强化研讨会，从至少四场课程中选择，这些研讨会旨在使他们能够深入探索数学主题并体验创造数学的兴奋感。 所有研讨会的共同主要重点是帮助学生提高数学语言（书面和口头）的流利程度。 总体目标是帮助学生实现重要转变：从学习算法到创建算法，从学习定义到认识数学景观的显着特征并创建定义，从学习特定定理和主题到利用数学互连的力量，即从学习数学到做数学。 这些研究所将作为加州大学伯克利分校和德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校数学系、加州大学伯克利分校专业发展项目以及德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校达纳数学和科学教育中心的四方联合项目运作。 这些学院将在加州大学伯克利分校和德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校轮流举办，并将以 1989 年、1990 年和 1991 年成功举办的学院为基础。夏季学院被视为国家战略的一部分，旨在提高历史上代表性不足的少数族裔对数学和依赖数学的职业的参与度。 主要目标是大幅增加从事数学职业的少数族裔本科生的数量。