Implementing the Standards for Introductory College Mathematics Before Calculus

微积分之前的大学数学入门标准是在国家科学和埃克森教育基金会的资助下开发的，以满足微积分以下的大学数学入门的特殊需求，建立标准并提出建议。这些标准为大学数学导论提供了目标，并为实现这些目标选择内容和教学策略提供了指导方针。 拟议项目的目标是促进标准的执行。 为此，将举办四次区域讲习班。这些讲习班的目的包括： 向更广泛的受众介绍改革问题以及改进课程和教学的拟议模式和模式， 鼓励各地区成立两年制和四年制学院和大学联盟，继续开展实施项目的工作。 根据NCTM标准，审查当前的示范计划，材料和活动，以及相关的中学课程，在介绍大学数学水平 向讲习班参加者提供有关数学教育研究的信息，有效的变革方法，以及与其行政部门合作为学生提供有意义的数学教育的建议。 编写一份关于区域讲习班后开始实施的项目的报告汇编，并将其提供给数学界的所有成员。 大学数学导论是我们大多数学生学习的数学。这是数学的劳动力，为未来的教师和那些谁计划在数学或数学依赖领域的专业，但谁进入大学准备学习微积分。它也是大多数人的守门人或关键过滤器。越来越多的学生在大学数学入门的某个时候进入数学“管道“，但没有更多的学生继续学习微积分和更高层次的课程。 这一层次的数学教育必须改变。为教师提供发展机会是必不可少的，如果要发生变化。建议的研讨会将使教师和管理人员能够了解体现标准的成功计划，有机会通过小组工作，在实验室环境中或使用技术来观察或体验学习过程，或参与标准推荐的任何主动学习过程。

Standards for Introductory College Mathematics Before Calculus was developed with funding from the National Science and the Exxon Education Foundations to address the special needs of, establish standards for, and make recommendations about introductory college mathematics below the level of calculus. The standards provide goals for introductory college mathematics and guidelines for selecting content and instructional strategies for accomplishing these goals. The goal of the project proposed is to facilitate the implementation of the Standards. This will be accomplished by holding four regional workshops. The purposes of these workshops include the following: to inform a wider audience of the reform issues and proposed patterns and models for improving curriculum and instruction, to encourage the formation of consortia of two- and four- year colleges and universities in each of several regions which will continue to work on implementation projects to review current exemplary programs, materials, and activities at the introductory college mathematics level as well as relevant secondary programs based on the NCTM Standards to provide workshop participants information on relevant research in mathematics education, effective approaches to change, and suggestions for working with their administrations to provide a meaningful mathematics education for their students. to prepare a compilation of reports on the implementation projects begun as a result of the regional workshops and to make this available to all members of the mathematics community. Introductory college mathematics is the mathematics that most of our students study. It is mathematics for the workforce, for future teachers and for those who plan to major in mathematics or a mathematics-dependent field but who enter college unprepared to study calculus. It is also the gate-keeper or critical filter for the majority. Greater numbers of students are entering the mathematics "pipeline " at some point in introductory college mathematics but no more are continuing to calculus and higher level courses. Mathematics education at this level must change. Providing faculty with development opportunities is essential if change is to occur. The workshops proposed will enable faculty and administrators to learn about successful programs that embody the Standards, to have an opportunity to observe or experience the process of learning through working in groups, in a laboratory setting, or using technology, or to engage in any of the active learning processes recommended by the Standards.