Case-based Teacher Assistant Software for Integrated Pre-college Mathematical Instruction Using a Subject- Integration Approach

9360544欧文如果学科是孤立地教授的，学生就不能理解他们必须掌握的概念的发展和产生的关系。学科整合或“整合课程”是一种新的教学方法，它为研究提供了良好的平台，并提供了比目前受过更好教育的民众。然而，目前大多数中学教师既没有时间，也没有行政支持，使他们能够在一个综合的框架内教授一门学科——一个可以利用历史和文化背景来展示它的发展的框架。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段的项目建议调查为中学数学教师开发一个教师助理软件设计的可行性，该软件使用概念及其上下文（案例）进行基于案例的推理（CBR），以便在互联网上使用。该项目有可能为整合课程提供有效和方便的教学辅助工具。这个工具将有助于保持学习者的兴趣和发展学生连接概念的心理设施，从而扩大他们解决问题的能力。＊＊＊

9360544 Owen If academic subjects are taught in isolation, students cannot appreciate the development of and the relationships emanating from the concepts that they are required to master. Integration of subjects or "integrated curricula" is a new pedagogical approach that affords excellent platforms for research and a far better educated populace than is to be found currently. Presently, however, most middle and secondary teachers have neither the time nor the administrative support to enable them to teach a subject in an integrated framework--one that may use the historical and cultural context to show it development. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project proposes to investigate the feasibility of developing a teacher assistant software design for middle and secondary teachers of mathematics that uses concepts and their contexts (cases) for case-based reasoning (CBR) for use on Internet. The project has the potential to contribute an effective and accessible teaching aid for integrating curriculum. This tool will facilitate the maintainence of learners interest and the development of a mental facility in students for linking concepts and thus enlarging their problem solving capabilities. ***