History Across the Mathematics Curriculum for Preservice Teachers

教育工作者普遍认为，上岗前的教师从学习一些数学历史中受益匪浅。美国全国数学教师委员会（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。通过研讨会和其他思想和材料的直接传播，这个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改善数学教师的准备，该项目正在制作一本由高等教育教师资源组成的教科书补充，以便将数学历史纳入职前数学教师的课程中。这包括小学和中学的教师。补充包括许多练习，让学生有机会体验给定时期和文化的数学。这些活动旨在为未来的教师做好准备，使他们能够向孩子们传授数学在历史上所扮演的重要而令人兴奋的角色。学生们越来越了解数学的跨学科性质，因为历史上许多发展都是由其他学科中出现的问题所推动的。学校也得到了帮助，因为这些材料有助于在数学课程中注入历史。技术在数学教育中扮演着越来越重要的角色，并提供了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使用技术工具，如Geometer的Sketchpad、Excel工作表和计算机代数系统。

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other direct dissemination of ideas and material, this proof of concept project educates faculty on ways to integrate historical content into mathematics courses and provides resources to do this.To improve the preparation of mathematics teachers by emphasizing historical development of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.