REU Site: Mathematics Research Experience for Pre-service and for In-service Teachers

REU 网站：职前和在职教师的数学研究经验

• 批准号: 0649210
• 负责人: Saad El-Zanati
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Board of Trustees of Illinois State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0649210&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Mathematics; Research; Experience

We will offer an eight-week summer research experience for eight undergraduates majoring in secondary education in mathematics and for four in-service secondary mathematics teachers. The pre-service teachers will be recruited nationwide (with emphasis on the Midwest region and on institutions that serve primarily minority populations), while the in-service teachers will be recruited from Illinois. The participants will explore, in teams of three, several research topics in discrete mathematics with emphasis on experimentation, conjecture, careful justification, and clear, precise reporting. An added emphasis will be on the development of teaching units for high school students.The main objective of the project is to provide research opportunities for the participants, helping them become highly-qualified teachers who can meet national demands for increased student proficiency and can adapt to the changing needs of our technological society. An additional objective is to showcase positive teaching role models for the pre-service participants.The expected outcomes related to the project goals include: (1) "teacher-scholars" teachers and prospective teachers who experience scholarship in mathematics in a setting that emphasizes the interconnections among theory, procedures and applications and who develop habits of mind of a mathematical thinker, (2) likely research publications authored jointly by students and faculty, (3) partnerships between university researchers and high school mathematics teachers, with common goals, and (4) teaching modules in discrete mathematics developed by the "teacher-scholars" that reflect a pedagogical emphasis on deep mathematical thinking.The pre-service participants will be offered up to $400 in travel support, a dorm room to be shared with other participants in the REU, a meal plan, and a $3200 stipend.This REU/RET project is jointly supported by the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA) and the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS).

我们将为八名主修中学数学教育的本科生和四名在职中学数学教师提供为期八周的暑期研究经验。职前教师将在全国范围内招聘（重点是中西部地区和主要为少数民族人口服务的机构），而在职教师将从伊利诺斯州招聘。参与者将以三人小组的形式探索离散数学中的几个研究主题，重点是实验，猜想，仔细的论证以及清晰，准确的报告。该项目的另一个重点将是发展高中学生的教学单位，其主要目标是为参与者提供研究机会，帮助他们成为高素质的教师，能够满足国家对提高学生能力的要求，并能够适应我们技术社会不断变化的需求。另一个目标是为职前参与者展示积极的教学榜样，与项目目标有关的预期成果包括：（1）“教师学者”教师和未来的教师，他们在强调理论、程序和应用之间相互联系的环境中体验数学奖学金，并养成数学思想家的思维习惯，（2）可能由学生和教师共同撰写的研究出版物，（3）大学研究人员和高中数学教师之间的伙伴关系，具有共同的目标，以及（4）由“教师学者”开发的离散数学教学模块，反映了对深层数学思维的教学重点。服务参与者将获得高达400美元的旅行支持，与REU的其他参与者共享宿舍，膳食计划和3200美元的津贴。该REU/RET项目由MPS多学科活动办公室（OMA）和数学科学部（DMS）共同支持。