Dynamic Algebra for Technical Students

技术学生的动态代数

• 批准号: 0603319
• 负责人: Solomon Garfunkel
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Consortium For Mathematics & Its Applications Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-15 至 2009-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0603319&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dynamic; Algebra; Technical; Students

This project is producing, field-testing, revising and disseminating a new College Algebra course designed to meet the academic goals and stimulate the interest of students in Advanced Technological Education (ATE) programs. Their goal is to increase student achievement for this student population by creating a course that builds a sound foundation for work and for future technical quantitative study. This course employs technology and an applied/modeling approach to cover essential topics in College Algebra in order to reflect and conform to placement testing and articulation structures at most colleges and universities.The course consists of a textbook, including traditional topics but with a significant amount of additional material delivered via the Internet. The web portal for this course features web assignments that allow students to see videos of technicians at work and explore problems using JAVA simulations from one of four areas of technical education: (a) Biotechnology and Environmental Technology; (b) Telecommunications and Semiconductor Technology; (c) Information Technology; and (d) Mechanical and Manufacturing Technology. Faculty members are able to use this site to customize both in-class and homework assignments for students enrolled in programs in these ATE areas. The content, pedagogy and format of these materials are being designed with substantial input from the College Algebra working group of the MAA Committee on Curriculum Reform and the First Two Years (CRAFTY) and representatives from both technical client disciplines and industry organizations, such as the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA). It is building on COMAP's other ATE projects where they are researching technical work environments and helping faculty create and integrate authentic applications derived from advanced technological areas into their courses.

该项目正在制作、现场测试、修改和传播一门新的大学代数课程，旨在实现学术目标并激发学生对高级技术教育 (ATE) 课程的兴趣。 他们的目标是通过创建一门课程来提高学生的成绩，为工作和未来的技术定量研究奠定良好的基础。本课程采用技术和应用/建模方法来涵盖大学代数的基本主题，以反映和符合大多数学院和大学的分班测试和衔接结构。本课程由一本教科书组成，其中包括传统主题，但还包含通过互联网提供的大量附加材料。本课程的门户网站以网络作业为特色，允许学生观看技术人员工作的视频，并使用 JAVA 模拟探索技术教育四个领域之一的问题：(a) 生物技术和环境技术； (b) 电信和半导体技术； (c) 信息技术； (d) 机械和制造技术。教师可以使用此网站为就读这些 ATE 领域课程的学生定制课堂作业和家庭作业。这些材料的内容、教学法和格式的设计得到了 MAA 课程改革和前两年委员会 (CRAFTY) 的大学代数工作组以及来自技术客户学科和行业组织（例如美国信息技术协会 (ITAA)）的代表的大量投入。它建立在 COMAP 的其他 ATE 项目的基础上，这些项目正在研究技术工作环境并帮助教师创建源自先进技术领域的真实应用程序并将其集成到他们的课程中。