The New Mexico Initiative for Math Reform

现代职场需要更多懂数学和技术的大学数学和微积分入门毕业生。为了满足这一需求，一个由五所新墨西哥州社区学院和该州两年制大学数学协会组成的联盟创建了新墨西哥数学改革倡议。该项目旨在通过数学改革和技术帮助提高学生对大学数学和微积分入门的学习。通过数学改革和利用计算机课堂实施改革的方式，促进和持续区域数学教师的专业发展，实现课堂干预。操作方法是会议和研讨会的递归应用，参与者在获得和磨练数学改革技术后，分散在整个地区并举办自己的研讨会。这种研讨会的迭代确保了材料的“指数交付”。要服务的地区是新墨西哥州及其毗邻州的邻近地区。合作伙伴是阿尔伯克基技术职业学院、新墨西哥军事学院、阿拉莫戈多新墨西哥州立大学、多纳安娜新墨西哥州立大学、瓦伦西亚新墨西哥大学、圣胡安社区学院和一个专业组织——新墨西哥两年制数学学院协会。这对大学数学和微积分入门课程的学生产生了影响。这个项目有可能惠及新墨西哥地区的每一个这样的学生。该项目正在外部调查员的帮助下进行形式性和总结性评价。该项目的成果由参与者自己通过他们自己的讲习班、向美国两年制学院协会等专业组织作报告和在学术期刊上发表出版物来传播。

The modern workplace needs more mathematically and technologically literate graduates in introductory college mathematics and calculus than it is receiving. To address this need, a consortium of five New Mexico community colleges and the state's mathematics association of two-year colleges created the New Mexico Initiative for Math Reform. The project is designed to help improve student learning in introductory college mathematics and calculus through mathematics reform and technology. Classroom intervention is being achieved by increasing and continuing the professional development of regional mathematics faculty member in the ways of mathematics reform and use of computer classrooms to implement reform. The method of operation is the recursive application of sessions and workshops in which the participants, after acquiring and honing the techniques of mathematics reform, fan out across the region and host their own workshops. This iteration of workshops ensures an "exponential delivery" of the material. The region to be serviced is New Mexico and adjacent areas of its bordering states. The partners are the Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute, New Mexico Military Institute, New Mexico State University at Alamogordo, New Mexico State University at Dona Ana, University of New Mexico at Valencia, San Juan Community College, and one professional organization, New Mexico Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges. The impact is on the students of introductory college mathematics and calculus. The project has the potential of reaching every such student in the New Mexican region. The project is being evaluated with the aid of an outside investigator both formatively and summatively. The results of the project are being disseminated by the participants themselves through their own workshops, by presentations to professional organizations such as the American Association of Two Year Colleges, and by publications in scholarly journals.