Catalyst to Develop a Center for Research on Embodied Mathematical Cognition

SLC Catalyst：具身数学认知、技术和学习的研究SLC Catalyst活动的目标是将教育、神经科学、心理学、社会学和数学领域的顶尖研究人员聚集在一起，为学习科学中心制定计划，从事具身数学认知、技术和学习的研究。该中心将发展理论和实证研究，可以涵盖(a)新技术的快速出现和涉及数学描述和分析的专业工作类型，(b)为所有学生提供公平获得强大数学思维形式的挑战，以及(c)为学习者准备日益不可预测的工作和公共生活需求的需要。中心参与者为催化剂项目带来了这些领域的积极研究议程。从社会科学、行为科学和脑科学的广泛新研究中汲取灵感，该中心将开发一个协调的项目，研究参与有目的的数学活动的互动、物理和具体方面。这包括对视觉、凝视、触摸、身体运动、手势、绘画和符号推导如何参与数学分析和论证的实地和实验室研究。这些研究将特别关注物理/计算设备在数学教学中的作用。该中心将举办三场现场研讨会，首先在范德比尔特大学，然后在南加州和北加州的大学校园。在这些研讨会之前，中心参与者将参加三个在线研讨会。这些研讨会的目的是回顾参与者所在学科的相关文献，使用共享的经验案例作为理论讨论的基础（例如，从课堂、工作场所和实验室环境中提取的案例），开发一套理论论文，以框架中心参与者的工作，并为一个多年的学习科学研究中心制定一个关于具身数学认知的协调研究计划。

SLC Catalyst: Research on Embodied Mathematical Cognition, Technology, and LearningThe goal of this SLC Catalyst activity is to bring together leading researchers in the fields of education, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, and mathematics to develop plans for a Science of Learning Center that pursues research on embodied mathematical cognition, technology, and learning. The Center will develop theory and empirical research that can encompass (a) the rapid emergence of new technologies and types of professional work that involve mathematical description and analysis, (b) the challenges of providing all students with equitable access to powerful forms of mathematical thinking, and (c) the need to prepare learners for the increasingly unpredictable demands of work and public life. Center participants bring active research agendas in these areas to the catalyst project. Drawing from a broad array of new research in the social, behavioral and brain sciences, the Center will develop a coordinated program of research on interactive, physical, and embodied aspects of participating in purposeful mathematical activity. These include field and laboratory studies of how vision, gaze, touch, body motion, gesture, drawing, and symbolic derivation are involved in mathematical analysis and argumentation. These studies will pay particular attention to the role of physical/computational devices in the teaching and learning of mathematics. The Center will conduct three on-site workshops, starting at Vanderbilt University and then on university campuses in southern and northern California. Leading up to these workshops, Center participants will engage in three online seminars. The purpose of these seminars is to review relevant literature in participants' home disciplines, use shared empirical cases to ground theoretical discussion (e.g., cases drawn from prior research in classroom, workplace, and laboratory settings), to develop a set of theoretical papers that will frame work of center participants, and to develop a coordinated research program on embodied mathematical cognition for a multi-year science of learning research center.