Framing Research on Activities as Mathematical Experiences

将活动研究框架化为数学经验

• 批准号: 1811395
• 负责人: Andee Rubin
• 金额: $ 29.98万
• 依托单位: TERC Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1811395&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Framing; Research; Activities; Mathematical; Experiences

This Innovations in Development project 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. This Pilot and Feasibility study will investigate strategies for enhancing the mathematics in museum-based making and tinkering activities and lay the foundation for a full research study on broadening family participation in mathematics through making. This proposal builds directly on the NSF-funded Math in the Making convening. During this convening, questions about how to authentically highlight and enhance the mathematics in making and tinkering experiences, and how different math-enhancement approaches might influence learner experiences and outcomes, emerged as critical issues for researchers, educators, and mathematicians alike. The project aims to provide a practical lens to help researchers and educators connect topics across STEM with making and tinkering experiences. The project also seeks to advance theoretical understandings of museum-based learning by exploring ways that activity design and facilitation strategies influence how visitors understand the nature and goals of the experience and, in turn, how these visitor experiences shape learning outcomes.The project is designed to explore the most promising of these math-enhancement strategies in more depth, to propose as a next project and develop a theoretical framework for understanding and describing how these strategies influence how families understand and engage with the mathematics in maker experiences. Through several culturally-responsive approaches developed in collaboration with community-based organizations, the project will research how mathematics in maker experiences influences participant engagement and learning. The project will culminate in the design of a research study. Reports and resources developed by the project will be broadly disseminated to researchers, mathematicians, and educators.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

开发项目中的这一创新是由非正式的STEM学习（AISL）计划资助的，该计划旨在推进对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和发展的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括提供多种途径，以扩大对STEM学习经验的访问和参与度，推进对非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究，并发展参与者对更深入学习的理解。这项飞行员和可行性研究将调查增强基于博物馆的制作和修补活动数学的策略，并为通过制造扩大家庭参与数学的全面研究奠定了基础。该建议直接建立在NSF资助的数学召集中。在此召开期间，有关如何真实地突出并增强了制作和修补体验的数学以及不同的数学增强方法如何影响学习者的经验和成果的问题，这是研究人员，教育者和数学家的关键问题。该项目旨在提供实用的镜头，以帮助研究人员和教育工作者将STEM的主题与制作和修补体验联系起来。 The project also seeks to advance theoretical understandings of museum-based learning by exploring ways that activity design and facilitation strategies influence how visitors understand the nature and goals of the experience and, in turn, how these visitor experiences shape learning outcomes.The project is designed to explore the most promising of these math-enhancement strategies in more depth, to propose as a next project and develop a theoretical framework for understanding and describing how these strategies influence how families understand and engage with the制造商体验中的数学。通过与社区组织合作开发的几种文化响应的方法，该项目将研究制造商体验中的数学如何影响参与者的参与和学习。 该项目将在研究的设计中达到顶峰。 该项目开发的报告和资源将广泛传播给研究人员，数学家和教育工作者。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，认为值得通过评估来获得支持。