Engaging Mathematics

“参与数学：建立一个全国实践社区”项目是一项教师发展和传播倡议，它通过增加使用SENCER模型来创建、实施和维持数学教育改革，扩大了美国国家科学基金会资助的项目“科学教育促进新公民参与和责任”（SENCER）的工作。SENCER专注于通过“现实世界”的问题学习数学和科学内容，并让学生参与复杂公民问题框架内的课程工作。参与数学正在创建一个更广泛的数学学者在SENCER社区，能够实施和维持课程改革和扩大SENCER的影响。该项目提供了一个持续和经常性的全国传播计划，其中包括开发评估工具，以监测学生对数学有用性的认识，他们对数学的兴趣和信心，学生知识内容的增长，以及他们应用数学更好地理解复杂公民问题的能力。“参与数学”是大都会州立大学、拉瓜迪亚社区学院和美国军事学院三所主要院校以及四所合作院校之间的一个合作项目，旨在开发和评估通过公民问题教授学生数学的课程。将邀请并鼓励尚未加入SENCER的数学教师使用该项目开发的材料，并根据其独特的机构需求进行调整。该项目提供了一个发展教师能力的机会，将数学课程的学习与当地、区域、国家和全球的实际和相关问题联系起来，从而大大提高学生对特定数学概念和技能的记忆，以及他们对数学建模和定量素养在日常生活中的作用的理解。参与数学正在生产适应性强的数学课程，使用公民问题的框架来研究数学及其在现实世界中的应用，并利用积极的，基于探究的教学法。参与数学实践社区正在教师和机构之间产生持久的合作，促进交叉施肥和采用创新课程和实践，使有效的评估和传播材料到更大的数学教育社区。该项目的影响是帮助学生认识到数学的价值和力量，无论他们的研究领域是什么，并使本科生能够利用这些课程中培养的技能和性格，更有效地参与到他们作为社会成员所面临的复杂的公民问题中。

The project Engaging Mathematics: Building a National Community of Practice, is a faculty development and dissemination initiative, which is expanding the work of the NSF funded project Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) by increasing the use of the SENCER model to create, implement, and sustain reforms in mathematics education. SENCER focuses on learning mathematics and science content through "real world" problems and engaging students in course work that is framed within complex civic issues. Engaging Mathematics is creating a wider community of mathematics scholars within SENCER, capable of implementing and sustaining curricular reforms and broadening SENCER impacts. The project offers a persistent and recurring program of national dissemination which includes developing assessment tools to monitor students' perceptions of the usefulness of mathematics, their interest and confidence in doing mathematics, the students' growth in knowledge content, and their ability to apply mathematics to better understand complex civic issues.Engaging Mathematics is a cooperative program between three lead institutions, Metropolitan State University, LaGuardia Community College, and the United States Military Academy and four partner institutions to develop and assess curricula that teach students mathematics through civic issues. Mathematics faculty not already affiliated with SENCER will be invited and encouraged to use the materials developed through the project and adapt them to their unique institutional needs.The project provides an opportunity to develop faculty capacity to connect learning in mathematics courses to real and relevant local, regional, national and global issues and thus greatly improve students' retention of specific mathematics concepts and skills, along with their understanding of the role of mathematical modeling and quantitative literacy in everyday life. Engaging Mathematics is producing adaptable mathematics curricula that use the framework of civic issues to study mathematics and its real-world applications and utilize active, inquiry-based pedagogies. The Engaging Mathematics community of practice is generating durable collaborations among faculty members and institutions, fostering cross-fertilization and adoption of innovative courses and practices, enabling effective assessment and disseminating materials to the larger mathematics education community. The impact of the project is helping students appreciate the value and power of mathematics, regardless of their fields of study, and to enable undergraduates to use skills and dispositions developed in these courses to have greater and more effective engagement with the complex civic issues that face them as members of society.