Progress in Integrating Technology in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics at Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)

历史悠久的黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 将技术融入数学教学的进展

• 批准号: 1214359
• 负责人: Tor Kwembe
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Jackson State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1214359&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Progress; Integrating; Technology; Teaching; Learning

This proposal will support Jackson State University to offer training workshops and follow-on activities to develop mathematics faculty expertise in the use of Mathematica as a teaching, learning and research tool in the mathematical sciences and to promote year-long technology aided undergraduate research in the mathematical sciences. Each year, the program will attract 30 mathematics faculty from at least six HBCUs in Mississippi and neighboring states and is intended to achieve the following specific objectives: (1) train 30 HBCU faculty each year for two years to gain expertise in integrating the Mathematica software in the teaching and learning of calculus and upper division mathematical sciences courses, (2) allow each participating faculty member to engage at least one mathematical sciences major from their institution in a year-long research experience and place them in summer research experience at other institutions, and (3) train each participating faculty on how to develop Mathematica course guidelines and manuals integrating programming with Mathematica and course delivery. The proposed program activities are structured to serve as a forum for learning, discussion and exchange of information on the use of technology in teaching, learning, and research in the mathematical sciences. Sessions will be held on the most effective ways of teaching undergraduate courses such as discrete mathematics, linear algebra, differential equations, operations research and matrix theory, and numerical analysis which are inherently numerical with the computer programming platforms such as Mathematica. The participating HBCU mathematics faculty will engage in national and international intellectual conversations to address questions of satisfaction with technology and student learning gains and to disseminate the best practices of technology-assisted teaching and learning of mathematics. The findings of the projects will be shared with academic institutions and intellectual and professional communities through conferences, journal publications, and workshops and on the Jackson State University web sites and departmental web pages.

这项建议将支持杰克逊州立大学提供培训讲习班和后续活动，以发展数学教师在数学科学中使用数学a作为教学、学习和研究工具的专门知识，并促进为期一年的技术辅助的本科生数学科学研究。该计划每年将吸引来自密西西比州和邻近各州至少六所HBCU的30名数学教职员工，旨在实现以下具体目标：(1)在为期两年的时间里，每年培训30名HBCU教职员工，以获得在微积分和高年级数学科学课程的教与学中整合数学软件的专业知识；(2)允许每名参与教职员工在为期一年的研究体验中从所在学院聘请至少一名数学科学专业人员，并将他们安排在其他机构进行暑期研究体验；以及(3)培训每位参与教职员工如何制定数学课程指南和手册，将编程与数学a和课程交付相结合。拟议的计划活动旨在成为学习、讨论和交流有关在数学科学的教学、学习和研究中使用技术的信息的论坛。课程内容包括离散数学、线性代数、微分方程式、运筹学和矩阵理论，以及数值分析等课程的最有效教学方法，而这些课程本身都是以电脑程式设计平台，例如MATHEMATICA。参加的HBCU数学教师将参与国内和国际智力对话，以解决对技术和学生学习成果的满意度问题，并传播技术辅助数学教学和学习的最佳做法。这些项目的结果将通过会议、期刊出版物和研讨会以及杰克逊州立大学的网站和系网页与学术机构、知识分子和专业人士分享。