Public Understanding of Math Initiative

[9813062 . baker] Widmeyer-Baker集团（TWBG）与全国数学教师委员会（NCTM）和全国工程少数民族行动委员会（NACME）合作，提议设计并实施一项针对全国、州和地方受众的公众理解和参与数学的运动。该活动的主要目标是让公众思考美国学生在中学阶段应该知道什么和能够做什么数学，以及数学对成功的事业和过上有趣和富有成效的生活很重要的原因。这种方法将通过NCTM设计的数学谜题，让不同阶层的美国人接触到数学。《TWBG》将以各种方式和格式广泛使用这些适合相机的数学谜题。这个活动的主要受众是普通的成年人。第二受众是中学生和他们的父母，包括作为父母代理人的人（即大家庭、养父母、日托提供者等）。这项倡议将是一项基层努力，能够覆盖美国各地的每一个社区。TWBG将被期望创造性地使用和/或与大众媒体、政策/行政/教学和基层组织、公司、联邦和州机构合作，传播有关该活动的信息。

9813062BakerThe Widmeyer-Baker Group (TWBG) working in conjunction with The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Incorporated (NACME) proposes to design and implement a campaign of Public Understanding and Engagement of Mathematics targeted toward national, state, and local audiences. The primary goal of the campaign is to engage the publics' thinking about what students in the United States should know and be able to do in mathematics in the middle school grades and the reasons mathematics is important to successful careers and to live an interesting and productive life. The approach will expose a diverse cross-section of Americans to mathematics using math puzzles designed by NCTM. TWBG will make widespread use of these camera-ready math puzzles in a variety of ways and formats. The primary audience for this campaign is the general adult population. The secondary audience is the middle school students and their parents, including persons serving as parent surrogates (i.e., extended family, foster parents, daycare providers, etc.).This initiative will be a grassroots effort capable of reaching every community throughout the United States. TWBG will be expected to make creative use and/ or collaboration with mass media, policy/administrative/teaching and grassroots organizations, corporations, and federal and state agencies in dissemination of the message about the campaign.