CIMBLE: Conference on Integrating Math into Informal Building Learning Environments

在过去的十年里，促进建筑、制作、修补和设计活动的校外环境激增，创造了一个前所未有的机会，让广泛的参与者参与到既有目的又强大的数学中来。到目前为止，几乎所有人都没有利用这个机会。这次会议将在纽约科学馆举行，并与其合作，将聚集50名研究人员和从业者，他们来自非正式的数学教育和新兴的“制造和修补”运动，为期两天，共同制定在制造和设计环境和程序中整合数学的方法。该项目包括会前和会后活动，将制作一份制作活动中的数学样本、一本指南、一份研究和实践白皮书、一次回溯性在线讨论以及进一步传播项目成果。它由推进非正式STEM学习(AISL)计划资助，该计划旨在促进对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和发展的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括为扩大获得和参与STEM学习经验提供多种途径，推进对非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估，以及加深参与者对更深层次学习的理解。通过会议以及会议前后的活动，项目团队将：-启动并维持研究人员和实践者之间的对话；-建立合作，以改变制造和设计环境中数学的框架和突出方式；-创建资源，帮助制造/设计社区的人们突出他们环境中的数学；以及-制定研究议程，以指导在制造和设计环境中对数学推理和态度的研究。这项工作包括对会议以及会议前后活动的广泛评估过程。

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.