SBIR Phase I: Connecting Science and Mathematics through Data

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将开发帮助科学学习者更有效地使用数学的材料。本项目为科学课堂新教材的创建提供了一个方案。这些材料将使用Fathom tm，一种最初为数学开发的新的数据分析软件包。此外，将对软件进行增强，使其更适合科学研究。理科学生经常使用不那么复杂的数学——例如，计算方法或比例——而不是他们在并行数学课上使用的。Fathom软件，加上诸如web和pro当心这样的数据源，可以用来帮助学生将他们正在学习的数学应用于科学。学生对科学概念的理解会提高，他们会看到科学和数学学习之间更多的联系。有了三个成功的范例课程，认识论工程将准备创建更多的材料并实现进一步的软件增强。拟议中的研究将显著增强Fathom软件，并为使用以前只有数学教育者才能使用的工具创建科学教育课程材料打开大门。认识论工程将受益于为Fathom打开科学市场，以及该公司将出版的科学课程材料的销售。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop materials to help science learners use mathematics more effectively. The project provides a plan for creating new curriculum materials for the science classroom. These materials will use Fathom tm, a new data analysis software package originally developed for mathematics. Also, enhancements for the software to make it more appropriate in science will be designed and implemented. Too often, science students use less-sophisticated mathematics--for example, computing means or proportions--than they use in parallel math classes. Fathom software, coupled with data sources such as the web and probeware, can be used-to help students bring the mathematics they are learning to bear on science. Students' understanding of science concepts will improve, and they will see more connections between their science and mathematics learning. With three successful sample lessons, Epistemological Engineering will be poised to create additional materials and to implement further software enhancements.The proposed research will lead to significant enhancements to Fathom software and open the door to creating curriculum materials in science education using tools previously available only to math educators. Epistemological Engineering will benefit both from opening the science market for Fathom and from the sale of the science curriculum materials that the firm will publish.