Long Beach Project in Geometry and Symmetry

数学科学(21)几何和对称性长滩项目正在为数学追求创造一个几何工作室，学生和教职员工在这里合作构建、发现和探索与数学思想和结果相关的模型和结构。一个基本的目标是鼓励学生发展实验、感知和几何思维方式。该项目的智力价值基于几何和对称性在数学中的统一影响，此外还充当了从数学到其他研究领域的概念桥梁，包括物理、化学、生物和艺术。在几何工作室里，学生们认识到这些领域与数学的联系，并将数学作为一种思维方式来体验。该项目正在产生广泛的影响，影响了大量准备在K-12教学中就业的学生的数学教育，并获得了作为一种实验性和感性努力的数学经验。此外，工作坊为实习教师提供了将这种方法应用到当前课堂的经验和资源。

Mathematical sciences (21) The Long Beach Project in Geometry and Symmetry is creating a geometry studio for mathematical pursuits, where students and faculty cooperatively construct, discover, and explore models and structures connected to mathematical ideas and results. A fundamental objective is to encourage students to develop experimental, perceptual, and geometric modes of thinking. The project's intellectual merit is grounded in the unifying influence that geometry and symmetry have within mathematics, in addition to serving as conceptual bridges from mathematics to other fields of study, including physics, chemistry, biology, and art. Within the geometry studio students realize the connections of these fields to mathematics and experience mathematics as a way of thinking. The project is having broad impact by influencing the mathematical education of large number of students who are preparing for careers in K-12 teaching and gaining experience of mathematics as an experimental and perceptual endeavor. Additionally, the workshops provide practicing teachers with a taste of that experience and resources for carrying the approach to their current classes.