Writing to Learn Mathematics at the Developmental Level

数学科学（21）为了给学生参与数学学习提供额外的途径，蒙哥马利学院塔科马公园校区的数学系正在实施由加州大学洛杉矶分校（NSF DUE#:95-55605）开发的写作软件程序，校准同行评审（CPR）。使用这个程序的学生通过写相关的说明文来展示他们对数学概念的理解。因此，学生积极地参与到学习过程中。将这部分内容加入课程的结果是，更多的学生看到了所学数学的相关性，保留了数学和定量解决问题的技能，提高了他们的写作技能和批判性思维技能。每个学生都单独参与到与教师所教授的特定主题相关的批判性思维情境中。使用数学课堂上通常不涉及的技能，为那些不是天生的定量思考者的学生提供了另一种使主题更容易理解和更有意义的方法。CPR软件侧重于关键的读写能力和沟通技巧。学生写说明性的文章，既注重对数学概念的理解，也注重对概念的有意义的例子。

Mathematical Sciences (21) To provide an additional path to student involvement in learning mathematics, the mathematics department at Montgomery College Takoma Park Campus is implementing the writing software program, Calibrated Peer Review (CPR), developed at UCLA (NSF DUE#:95-55605). Students using this program demonstrate their understanding of mathematical concepts by writing related expository essays. Therefore, the students are actively involved in the learning process.The outcomes of adding this component to the curriculum are that more students are seeing the relevance of the mathematics learned, retaining the mathematical and quantitative problem solving skills, improving their writing skills and improving their critical thinking skills. Each student is individually involved in a critical thinking situation related to a particular topic being taught by the instructor. The use of skills not generally tapped in a mathematics class provides another way to make the topics more accessible and more meaningful to those students who are not natural quantitative thinkers. The CPR software concentrates on critical literacy and communication skills. Students write expository essays that focus on both the understanding of a mathematical concept as well as meaningful examples of the concept.