History Across the Mathematics Curriculum for Preservice Teachers

职前教师数学课程的历史

• 批准号: 0442762
• 负责人: Gabriela Sanchis
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Elizabethtown College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-03-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0442762&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: History; Across; Mathematics; Curriculum; Preservice

There is a broad endorsement among educators that pre-service teachers benefit greatly from being taught some history of mathematics. Publications of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the Mathematics Association of America (MAA), and the International Committee on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) have included recommendations for the incorporation of history into the mathematics curriculum, especially for pre-service teachers. Through workshops and other direct dissemination of ideas and material, this proof of concept project educates faculty on ways to integrate historical content into mathematics courses and provides resources to do this.To improve the preparation of mathematics teachers by emphasizing historical development of mathematical ideas, the project is producing a textbook supplement consisting of resources for higher education faculty to use to integrate history of mathematics into courses taken by pre-service mathematics teachers. This includes teachers at both the elementary and secondary levels. The supplement includes many exercises that give students opportunities to experience the mathematics of a given period and culture. The activities are designed to prepare and empower future teachers to teach children about the important and exciting role that mathematics has played throughout history. Students are gaining an increased understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of mathematics, since many developments have been historically motivated by problems arising in other disciplines. Institutions are also being aided since this material helps make it possible to inject history across the mathematics curriculum. Technology has an increasingly important role to play in mathematics education, and provides computational and visual tools that can be used to deconstruct and reconstruct historical results and arguments. Many of the resources developed involve the use of technological tools such as Geometer's Sketchpad, Excel worksheets, and computer algebra systems.

教育工作者普遍认为，职前教师从学习一些数学史中受益匪浅。 美国数学教师委员会 (NCTM)、美国数学协会 (MAA) 和国际数学教学委员会 (ICMI) 的出版物均提出了将历史纳入数学课程的建议，特别是针对职前教师。 通过研讨会和其他直接传播思想和材料的方式，这一概念验证项目教育教师如何将历史内容整合到数学课程中，并为此提供资源。为了通过强调数学思想的历史发展来提高数学教师的准备，该项目正在制作一本教科书补充材料，其中包含供高等教育教师使用的资源，将数学史整合到职前数学课程中 老师们。 这包括小学和中学的教师。 该补充材料包括许多练习，让学生有机会体验特定时期和文化的数学。 这些活动旨在帮助未来的教师做好准备并赋予他们权力，让他们能够向孩子们传授数学在整个历史中所发挥的重要而令人兴奋的作用。 学生们对数学的跨学科性质有了越来越多的了解，因为历史上许多发展都是由其他学科中出现的问题推动的。 机构也得到了帮助，因为这种材料有助于将历史注入到数学课程中。 技术在数学教育中发挥着越来越重要的作用，并提供可用于解构和重建历史结果和论点的计算和可视化工具。 开发的许多资源涉及技术工具的使用，例如几何画板、Excel 工作表和计算机代数系统。