IDPO/WG: Girls on Track: Increasing Middle-Grade Girls' Interest in Math-Related Careers by Engaging Them in Computer-Based Mathematical Explorations of Urban Problems

HRD-9813902莎拉·贝伦森（Sarah Berensen）尽管在高中数学课程中保留的女孩越来越多，但女性大学新生仍然不成比例地避免与数学相关的专业，如计算机科学，工程和物理。 为了解决这一持续存在的问题，女孩在轨道上，一个为期三年的，多机构的干预方案，为200名初中女生，将从事50名在职代数一教师，15名指导顾问，和30名数学教育本科生在开发和提供暑期学院和全年活动，以提高初中女生的热情和学习数学的信心，使用计算机技术。 使用从公共的，基于互联网的数据库中提取的真实的数据集，女孩们将使用各种常见的和最先进的计算机应用程序来构建基于地理学的解决方案，以解决他们自己城市环境中的问题，北卡罗来纳州威克县威克县及其周围的研究三角区是美国发展最迅速的地区之一。他们通过将这些概念应用于罗利-达勒姆地区的社会问题，如公立学校和低收入住房的短缺，污染和森林砍伐的增加，公共交通系统不足，以及三角研究中许多与农业相关的技术人员和专业职业的合格人员短缺，来学习概率和统计学。 在安慰辅导员，女孩也将发展自己的职业生涯的轨迹，以及探索过去和现在的趋势，在SEM领域的性别和少数民族的代表性。 在每年的暑期学院，教师和指导顾问将使用行动研究来完善这些严格的基于计算机的数学探索。 女孩的其他活动包括与数学导师配对;由职前教师辅导;与辅导员会面;在“带你的女儿去工作日”陪同导师;在Sonya Kovalevsky日参加团队比赛;以及年度颁奖宴会。 项目合作伙伴包括北卡罗来纳州州立大学的数学和科学教育研究中心以及数学教育、计算机科学和辅导员教育系;梅雷迪思，一所私立女子学院，拥有与当地行业相关的强大数学辅导计划;威克公司公立学校，学生人数迅速增长，达到85，000人;以及北卡罗来纳州公共教育系。 其他贡献者包括IBM、美国数学协会和附近三角研究园的许多其他公司，它们通过女科学家和南极洲人的工作时间赞助数学辅导部分。 北卡罗来纳州计算机科学系将通过互联网网站公开提供互动式数学课程和女孩的档案袋以及关于SEM职业中妇女和少数民族的介绍，并链接到北卡罗来纳州数学和科学教育网络年度全州大学预科课程的集中网站LEARN-NC，而项目结果将在专业会议和经评估的期刊上传播。

HRD-9813902Sarah BerensonDespite increased retention of girls in advance high school math programs, female college entrants continue to disproportionately avoid such math-related majors as computer science, engineering, and physics. To counter this persistent problem, Girls on Track, a three-year, multi-institutional intervention program for 200 middle-grade girls, will engage 50 in-service Algebra I teachers, 15 guidance counselors, and 30 math education undergraduates in developing and delivering Summer Academies and year-round activities to increase middle grade girls' enthusiasm for and confidence in learning mathematics, using computer technology. Using real data sets pulled from public, Internet-based databases, girls will work with a variety of common and state-of-the-art computer applications to construct mathematics-based solutions to problems in their own urban environment, Wake County, NC Wake County, with the surrounding Research Triangle area, is one of the most rapidly developing regions in the US Girls will explore patterns and functions, spatial reasoning, and probability and statistics by applying these concepts to such social problems in their own Raleigh-Durham area as the shortage of public schools and low-income housing, increased pollution and deforestation, insufficient mass transit systems, and shortage of qualified persons for the many mathematics-related technician and professional careers in the Research Triangle. In consolation with guidance counselors, girls will also develop trajectories of their own careers, as well as explore past and present trends in gender and minority representation in SEM fields. During annual Summer Academies, teachers and guidance counselors will use action research to refine these rigorous computer-based mathematics explorations. Other activities for girls include pairing with Math Mentors; tutoring by pre-service teachers; meeting with counselors; accompanying Mentors on "Take Your Daughter to Work Day;" team competitions on Sonya Kovalevsky Day; and an Annual Awards Banquet. Project partners include NC State University's Center for Research in Math and Science Education and Departments of Math Education, Computer Science, and Counselor Education; Meredith, a private women's college with a strong Math Mentoring Program affiliated with local industry; Wake Co. Public Schools, with a rapidly growing student population of 85,000; and the NC Department of Public Instruction. Additional contributors include IBM, the Math Association of America, and the many other corporations in nearby Research Triangle Park that sponsor the Math Mentoring component through the staff time of their female scientists and mathematicans. Interactive math lessons and girls' portfolios and presentations on women and minorities in SEM careers will be made publicly available by the NC State Computer Science department via Internet sites, and linked to LEARN- NC, the centralized web site for the NC Mathematics and Science Education Network's annual statewide pre-college program, while project results will be disseminated a professional conferences and in evaluated journals.