Reformed Mathematics Pedagogy and Laboratory/Technical Activities in Support of Aeronautics and Space Technical Education for Community and Technical College Students

美国航空航天局-美国数学两年制学院协会项目联盟：改革数学教学法和实验室美国数学两年制学院协会“数学十字路口”标准所倡导的改革教学法表明，目前社区/技术学院的数学教学方式存在重大缺陷。两年制大学的学生在他们的数学课程中没有足够的机会接触到航空和空间技术在现实世界中的应用。该项目的目标是开发一系列实验室/技术活动（LTAs），这些活动对社区/技术学院中从预代数到微积分的数学的感知、教授和学习方式做出重大贡献。LTAs将由社区/技术学院的教师与肯尼迪航天中心的NASA科学家/工程师合作开发。LTAs将以航空航天科学产生的广泛技术问题为基础。此外，该项目将开发LTAs的衍生产品，将其扩展到其他相关的数学领域。目标受众包括所有社区/技术学院的学生，其中50%以上是女性和少数民族。“NASA-AMATYC PC”是一个由三个组织组成的项目联盟：NASA（美国国家航空航天局）、AMATYC（美国两年制大学数学协会）和CC-TC（首都社区技术学院）。这个项目将为社区/技术学院的学生提供一系列现实世界的技术应用。这些应用程序将嵌入到支持AMATYC标准的教学结构中。在发展过程的每个阶段进行的评估将把LTAs与中学、两年制和四年制大学的数学教育结合起来。将在全国范围内通过小册子、小册子和简报进行传播，并在全球范围内通过互联网进行传播。

National Aeronautics and Space Administration - American Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges Project Coalition: A Reform Mathematics Pedagogy and Laboratory The reform pedagogy advocated by the Standards of AMATYC's (American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges) "Crossroads In Mathematics" implies significant shortcomings in the way mathematics is currently taught in community/technical colleges. Two-year college students do not have sufficient access in their mathematics courses to real world applications from aeronautics and space technology. The goal of this project is to develop a collection of laboratory/technical activities (LTAs) that significantly contribute to the way in which mathematics from prealgebra through calculus is perceived, taught, and learned in community/technical colleges. The LTAs will be developed by community/technical college faculty working with NASA Scientists/Engineers at the Kennedy Space Center. The LTAs will be based on a wide range of technical problems generated from the science of aeronautics and space. In addition, the project will develop Spinoffs from the LTAs that extend them into other related mathematical areas. The targeted audience includes all community/technical college students of whom significantly more than 50% are women and minorities. "NASA-AMATYC PC" is a project coalition involving three organizations: NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), AMATYC (American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges), and CC-TC (Capital Community-Technical College). This project will provide community/technical college students with a collection of real world technological applications. These applications will be embedded in a pedagogical structure that supports AMATYC's Standards. Evaluation, occurring at every stage of the development process, will articulate the LTAs with mathematics education at the secondary school, two and four-year college levels. Dissemination will take place nationally via brochures, booklets and presentations, and globally on the Internet.