Research: InforMath: Mathematics to Enrich Learning Experiences in Science and Art Museums

这个研究项目建立了一个新的研究中心，InforMath协作，汇集了大学教育研究人员和圣地亚哥巴尔博亚公园艺术和科学博物馆的专业人士。 InforMath协作组织正在调查和建设非正规学习机构的能力，以支持数学内容和特性学习。 通过将研究，设计和专业发展结合起来的持续合作，InforMath合作的成员正在进行基于设计的展览和项目研究，这些展览和项目将参与博物馆的艺术和科学内容与拓扑和投影几何的数学相结合。 InforMath协作的更广泛的目标是改变数学的文化观念，扩大学习者对该学科的接触。 该项目旨在开发非正式的数学学习经验，使数学感觉可访问，身体为基础，创造性，并与广泛的其他知识领域，包括艺术和科学密切相关。 该项目将建立和加强从事非正规数学学习的教育专业人员的区域和国家网络，并扩大非正规机构的能力，以支持有吸引力的、创新的、内容丰富的和文化变革性的数学学习经验。

This research project establishes a new research center, the InforMath Collaborative, that brings together university educational researchers and professionals at art and science museums in San Diego's Balboa Park. The InforMath Collaborative is investigating and building the capacity of informal learning institutions to support content and identity learning in mathematics. Through sustained collaborations that unite research, design, and professional development, members of the InforMath Collaborative are conducting design-based research on exhibits and programs that integrate art and science content from participating museums with the mathematics of topology and projective geometry. The broader goal of the InforMath Collaborative is to transform cultural perceptions of mathematics in ways that broaden learners' access to the discipline. The project aims to develop informal mathematical learning experiences that make mathematics feel accessible, body-based, creative, and deeply relevant to a wide array of other knowledge domains, including both art and science. The project will build and strengthen regional and national networks of educational professionals who work in informal mathematics learning and expand the capacity of informal institutions to support engaging, innovative, content-rich, and culturally transformative mathematical learning experiences.