Catalyst to Develop a Center for Research on Embodied Mathematical Cognition

SLC催化剂：本SLC催化剂活动的目标是汇集教育，神经科学，心理学，社会学和数学领域的领先研究人员，制定学习中心的科学计划，追求对具体的数学认知，技术和学习的研究。该中心将开发理论和实证研究，可以包括（a）新技术和类型的专业工作，涉及数学描述和分析的快速出现，（B）提供所有学生平等获得强大的数学思维形式的挑战，以及（c）需要学习者准备工作和公共生活的日益不可预测的需求。中心参与者将这些领域的积极研究议程带到催化剂项目中。从社会，行为和脑科学的新研究的广泛阵列绘图，该中心将制定一个协调的研究方案的互动，物理和具体方面的参与有目的的数学活动。这些包括视觉，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和学习中的作用。该中心将举办三个现场研讨会，首先在范德比尔特大学，然后在加州南部和北方的大学校园。在这些研讨会之前，中心的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进行理论讨论（例如，案例来自课堂，工作场所和实验室环境的先前研究），开发一套理论论文，将框架中心参与者的工作，并制定一个协调的研究计划，体现数学认知的多年学习科学研究中心。

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.