Facilitating Student Access to Mathematics Programs - A Mathematics Learning Center.

促进学生学习数学课程 - 数学学习中心。

• 批准号: 9751576
• 负责人: Ronald Morash
• 金额: $ 4.43万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-01 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9751576&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Facilitating; Student; Access; Mathematics; Programs

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Michigan-Dearborn seeks funding for equipping a student-tutor and technology- based Mathematics Learning Center (MLC). The equipment requested includes computer hardware and related software and audio-visual workstations. Creation of this new facility is proposed for the purpose of improving access to the mathematics program for students at three levels (I) the freshman remedial level (II) the freshman-sophomore calculus sequence level (III) the junior-senior concentrators' program level, with emphasis on nonconcentrators. Existing data show wide discrepancies, in courses at these three levels having a specified prerequisite course, between students who completed the prerequisite course at UM-D and those who did not. The MLC will facilitate access to the mathematics program for large numbers of students who currently experience difficulty in joining a structured sequence of mathematics courses at a stage other than the beginning. This proposal has the endorsement of the Department Executive Committee. More than half the full-time faculty in the Department have contributed actively to its formulation. The MLC Committee chair, the principal investigator in this proposal, is the department chair. It also has the enthusiastic support of central administration, demonstrated through a number of grants, including a recent $12,000 salary grant for a program development pilot project, currently under way *

密歇根大学迪尔伯恩分校的数学和统计系寻求资金，以装备一个学生导师和以技术为基础的数学学习中心(MLC)。所要求的设备包括计算机硬件和相关软件以及视听工作站。建立这一新设施的目的是为了改善三个级别的学生获得数学课程的机会：(一)新生辅导级别(二)一年级-二年级微积分顺序级别(三)初级-高级集中器计划级别，重点是非集中器。现有数据显示，在这三个级别的课程中，在密歇根州立大学完成必修课的学生和没有完成必修课的学生之间，存在着很大的差异。MLC将为大量学生提供进入数学课程的便利，这些学生目前在参加一系列结构化的数学课程时遇到了困难，而不是在开始阶段。这项提议得到了该部执行委员会的赞同。该部门一半以上的全职教职员工积极参与了该计划的制定工作。MLC委员会主席，也就是本提案的主要调查者，是该部门的主席。它还得到了中央行政部门的热情支持，这体现在一些赠款上，包括最近为目前正在进行的一个方案开发试点项目提供的12,000美元的工资赠款*。