CIMBLE: Conference on Integrating Math into Informal Building Learning Environments

在过去的十年里，校外环境的激增促进了建筑、制作、修补和设计活动，创造了一个前所未有的机会，让广泛的参与者参与到有目的和强大的数学中来。迄今为止，这一机会几乎没有得到普遍利用。这次会议将在纽约科学馆举行，并与纽约科学馆合作，将聚集50名来自非正式数学教育和新兴的“制作和修补”运动的研究人员和实践者，为期两天，共同探讨将数学整合到制作和设计环境和程序中的方法。该项目包括会前和会后活动，将制作《数学在制造》活动样本、指南、研究和实践白皮书、回顾在线讨论以及项目成果的进一步传播。它由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括提供多种途径，扩大STEM学习经验的获取和参与，推进非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估，以及发展参与者对深度学习的理解。通过会议和会议前后的活动，项目团队将：-发起和维持研究人员和从业人员之间的对话；-建立协作，改变数学在制作和设计环境中的框架和重点；-创建资源，帮助制作/设计社区的人们在他们的环境中突出数学；制定一个研究议程，以指导在制造和设计环境中的数学推理和对数学的态度的研究。这项工作包括对会议以及会前和会后活动进行广泛的评价。

Over the last decade there has been a proliferation of out-of-school environments that foster building, making, tinkering, and design activities, creating an unprecedented opportunity to engage a wide range of participants in mathematics that is both purposeful and powerful. To date, this opportunity has been almost universally unexploited. The conference, which will take place at and in collaboration with the New York Hall of Science, will gather fifty researchers and practitioners from informal mathematics education and the burgeoning "making and tinkering" movement for two days to collaboratively generate approaches to integrating mathematics in making and design environments and programs. The project, which includes pre- and post-conference activities, will produce a sampler of Math in Making activities, a guidebook, a white paper for research and practice, a retrospective online discussion, and further dissemination of project deliverables. It is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants. Through the conference and pre- and post-conference activities, the project team will: - Initiate and sustain conversations between researchers and practitioners; - Establish collaborations that lead to changes in the way math is framed and highlighted in making and design environments; - Create resources to help people in the making/design community highlight the math in their environments; and - Frame a research agenda to guide studies of mathematical reasoning and attitudes towards math in making and design environments.The work includes an extensive evaluation process of the conference and of pre- and post-conference activities.