Helping Students Understand Real-world Applications of Mathematics by Connecting Industry to Math Instruction

通过将工业与数学教学联系起来，帮助学生理解数学在现实世界中的应用

• 批准号: 1954291
• 负责人: James Martin
• 金额: $ 54.43万
• 依托单位: Wake Technical Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1954291&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Helping; Students; Understand; Real; world

This project aims to improve mathematics education at the community college and high school levels to ensure that students gain the mathematics skills they need to enter STEM careers. To achieve this goal, the project will directly connect math instruction with industry needs. By providing this connection, high school and community college math educators can help their students see the significance of math beyond the classroom. With substantial input from industry experts, math educators will create industry-validated and classroom-tested student activities designed to help students use math concepts within different industry and technological contexts. The activities will include student tasks and teacher notes about how to implement the activity in the classroom. In addition, the activities will have introductory videos featuring diverse subject matter experts, thus helping students from different backgrounds envision themselves as successful STEM professionals. The project will also introduce math students to STEM careers and educational pathways that they might not have otherwise considered. This project is a collaboration between Wake Technical Community College, Wake County Public School System, and WakeEd Partnership. The project responds to the call to teach math in the context of real-world applications, which was issued by the NSF-funded Needed Math Conference and the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges. It also builds on prior proof-of-concept workshops by the collaborators. The goals of the project include: 1) effecting sustainable change in instructional practice of math educators; 2) developing an online catalog of self-contained, industry-validated math activities; 3) incorporating STEM-based activities into math courses; and 4) increasing diversity in STEM. The project will incorporate industry input and subject matter expertise during the development of activities, which will be piloted in high schools across Wake County. The project will also assess student success and feedback, and gather industry input about that feedback. Formative and summative evaluation will be used to improve understanding of how high schools, community colleges, and industry can collaborate to build effective solutions to pressing educational challenges. Evidence gathered through evaluation will advance knowledge about effective teaching/learning methods. Dissemination will include conference presentations, and validated activities will be available for download from multiple web-based repositories. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.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.

该项目旨在改善社区大学和高中的数学教育，以确保学生获得进入STEM职业所需的数学技能。为了实现这一目标，该项目将直接将数学教学与行业需求联系起来。 通过提供这种联系，高中和社区大学的数学教育工作者可以帮助他们的学生看到数学在课堂之外的意义。 在行业专家的大量投入下，数学教育工作者将创建经过行业验证和课堂测试的学生活动，旨在帮助学生在不同的行业和技术背景下使用数学概念。 活动将包括学生任务和教师关于如何在课堂上实施活动的笔记。 此外，这些活动将有介绍性视频，介绍不同主题的专家，从而帮助来自不同背景的学生设想自己是成功的STEM专业人士。 该项目还将向数学学生介绍他们可能没有考虑过的STEM职业和教育途径。 该项目是威克技术社区学院，威克县公立学校系统和WakeEd合作伙伴之间的合作。 该项目响应了在现实世界应用背景下教授数学的号召，这是由NSF资助的Needed Math Conference和美国两年制大学数学协会发布的。 它还建立在合作者先前的概念验证研讨会的基础上。该项目的目标包括：1）实现数学教育工作者教学实践的可持续变革; 2）开发一个独立的、经过行业验证的数学活动的在线目录; 3）将基于STEM的活动纳入数学课程; 4）增加STEM的多样性。该项目将在活动的开发过程中纳入行业投入和主题专业知识，这些活动将在威克县的高中进行试点。该项目还将评估学生的成功和反馈，并收集有关反馈的行业投入。形成性和总结性评价将用于提高高中，社区学院和行业如何合作，以建立有效的解决方案，以紧迫的教育挑战的理解。通过评价收集的证据将增进关于有效教学/学习方法的知识。 传播将包括会议介绍，经验证的活动将可从多个网上资料库下载。 该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。