Mathematical Modeling as Teacher Preparation

以标准为基础的课程改革在高中课堂上取得了重大进展。这些课程在很大程度上是不同的。这些新项目的内容、教学方法、技术和评估与短短几年前的几乎没有相似之处。目前，学院和大学正在毕业并认证那些没有准备好应对新教材和新课程的中学数学教师。这就保证了，如果学校采用改革后的新课程，即使是本科和研究生课程的新教师也必须接受再培训。这个项目正在开发、实地测试和出版一个建模课程的文本，该课程旨在为专业学生和未来的中学数学教师设计，反映和模拟未来教师将在高中课堂上经历的课程。这门课程既强调如何将问题数学化，也强调如何选择要使用的数学。它还经常使用技术、小组和基于探究的学习以及替代评估。

Standards-based reform curricula are making serious inroads in the high school classroom. These curricula are truly different in significant ways. The content, pedagogy, technology, and assessment of these new programs bear little resemblance to those of only a few short years ago. Currently, colleges and universities are graduating and certifying students to teach mathematics at the secondary level who are not prepared to deal with the new texts and courses. This guarantees that even new teachers from undergraduate and graduate programs have to be retrained if their schools adopt one of the new reformed curricula. This project is developing, field-testing, and publishing a text for a modeling course which is intended both for majors and for future secondary school teachers of mathematics which mirrors and models courses that future teachers will experience in the high school classroom. The course emphasizes both how to mathematize the problem and how to select the mathematics to use. It also makes frequent use of technology, group and inquiry based learning, and alternative assessments.