Mathematical Modeling as Teacher Preparation

基于标准的改革课程正在高中课堂上取得重大进展。这些课程在很大程度上确实不同。这些新课程的内容、教学方法、技术和评估与短短几年前的课程几乎没有相似之处。 目前，学院和大学正在毕业，并对那些不准备学习新教材和新课程的学生进行认证，以教授中学数学。这保证了即使是本科和研究生课程的新教师，如果他们的学校采用新的改革课程之一，也必须接受再培训。 该项目正在开发，现场测试和出版一个模型课程的文本，该课程旨在为专业和未来的中学数学教师提供镜像和模型课程，未来的教师将在高中课堂上体验。 该课程强调如何数学化的问题，以及如何选择使用的数学。 它还经常使用技术，基于小组和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.