SBIR Phase II: Development of a Media-Rich, Game-Based Social Learning Platform for Improving Math Process Skills

这份小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目建议书对项目的初始平台进行了改进和扩展，以改进数学问题的解决。今天的数学课堂把大部分时间花在练习程序上，很少花时间深入学习数学概念。此外，到学生上中学时，他们中的许多人要么已经形成了数学焦虑，要么没有得到足够的挑战。该移动协作平台支持流程驱动、学生主导的解决方案。学生可以创建、策划和评估他们自己思维过程的多媒体小插曲。在第二阶段，该团队将继续完善该产品，目标是5-12年级的学生。它还将建立一个多方面的仪表板，帮助教育工作者定制内容，创建学习途径，并确定学生的优势和劣势。此外，该公司打算扩展该产品，以支持英语学习者和有学习困难的学生。该项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力为改变数学教育和课堂内外的参与度提供了巨大的前景。该平台将帮助学生培养解决复杂问题的信心和技能，通过审查其他学生的作业来完善他们的数学交流，提高他们的元认知能力，并为教师提供关于成长衡量标准的有形数据。这使该公司能够从16亿美元的5-12美元细分市场开始，然后瞄准几个相邻的快速增长的细分市场。该团队带来了强大和多样化的教育、技术和商业技能的组合，这将是拟议中的数学教育创新成功商业化的关键。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 2 project proposal refines and scales the project's initial platform for improving mathematics problem solving. Math classrooms today spend most of their time practicing procedures and rarely spend time engaged in deep study of mathematical concepts. In addition, by the time students reach middle school, a number of them have either developed math anxiety or are not adequately challenged. This mobile collaborative platform supports process-driven, student led solutions. Students can create, curate and evaluate multimedia vignettes of their own thinking process. In Phase 2, the team will continue to refine the product, targeting students in Grade 5-12. It will also build a multi-faceted dashboard to help educators customize content, create learning pathways and determine student strengths and weaknesses. In addition, the company intends to extend the product to support English Language Learners and students with learning difficulties.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project offers tremendous promise for changing math education and engagement both in and out of the classroom. This platform will help students develop confidence and skills in solving complex problems, refine their math communication and improve their meta-cognition through the review of other students' work and equip teachers with tangible data about growth measures. This enables the company to address multiple markets starting with the $1.6 billion 5-12 market segment and subsequently addressing several adjacent market segments that are growing rapidly. The team brings a strong and diverse mix of educational, technical and business skills that will be critical to successful commercialization of the proposed math education innovation.