Discovering the Art of Mathematics: Inquiry Based Learning in Mathematics for Liberal Arts

这个项目帮助完成发现数学的艺术，一个图书馆的10个完整的，独立的文科数学(MLA)和其他相关课程的学习指南。每一卷都提供了足够一学期的课程所需的课程材料。这种教学法是一种基于探究的学习形式，是苏格拉底对话的产物。数学内容既复杂又通俗易懂，与艺术、历史、文化、哲学、人文主义和文学有着深刻而自然的联系。在该项目的第一阶段，这些独特的课程材料在1000多名使用这些材料的学生中引发了相当大的学习收获和情感益处。除了完成教材外，类型2奖还将支持教师资源指南、评估材料和资源的开发，以便在普通教育数学课程中扩大探究的使用。它还将支持9个巡回专业发展讲习班，这些讲习班将帮助培养以探究性学习为基础的从业者社区，这些从业者来自通常缺乏支持的最经常教授工作重点的教师群体。它还将支持创建和实施评估工具，以进一步评估学生使用我们的材料的学习收获和情感好处。最后，它支持高调地在全国范围内传播《发现数学的艺术》图书馆及其产生的学术著作，帮助改变教与学MLA的方式。

This project helps complete Discovering the Art of Mathematics, a library of 10 full-length, stand-alone learning guides for Mathematics for Liberal Arts (MLA) and other cognate courses. Each volume provides curriculum materials sufficient for a semester-long course. The pedagogy is a form of inquiry-based learning that is a descendent of the Socratic dialogue. The mathematical content is both sophisticated and accessible, with deep and natural connections to the arts, history, culture, philosophy, humanism, and literature throughout. During Phase 1 of the project, these unique curriculum materials sparked considerable learning gains and affective benefits in the cohort of over 1,000 students who used the materials. In addition to the completion of the materials, the Type 2 award will support the development of teacher resource guides, assessment materials, and resources for the expanded use of inquiry in general education mathematics courses. It will also support nine traveling professional development workshops that will help develop communities of inquiry-based learning practitioners from the generally under-supported cohort of teachers that most often teach MLA. It will also support the creation and implementation of assessment tools that further evaluate the student learning gains and affective benefits of using our materials. Finally, it supports the high-profile, nationwide dissemination of the Discovering the Art of Mathematics library and the scholarly work it generates, helping to transform the way MLA is taught and learned.