Workshop on Undergraduate Teaching with Mathematics and Statistics Action Technologies

本次研讨会旨在通过提高对未来数学教师的准备，为满足国家对高质量数学教学的需求做出贡献。研讨会的重点是帮助数学教育教师发展数学行动技术的专业知识。这些技术包括计算和显示数学方程结果的工具和设备，如图形计算器和计算机模拟。这个互动工作坊将为数学教育教师提供学习如何作为学习者使用数学动作技术的机会。此外，教师参与者将考虑如何在未来的中学数学教师的课程中实施这些技术。来自美国各地的大约50名教师将参加该研讨会，获得实践数学行动工具，跨越不同的数学和统计课程的需求。该项目的主要目标是为未来的中学数学教师提高教授本科课程的专业知识。为此，它将为本科数学内容和教学方法课程的讲师计划和实施一个为期2.5天的讲习班，旨在培养未来的教师用技术教授数学。该项目将提供从初级到高级的课程，在这些课程中，教师将学习如何作为学习者使用数学动作技术，并考虑如何在他们的课程中实施这些技术。具体而言，该项目将：1)提供关于各种数学行动工具的研讨会，这些工具涵盖几何、代数/函数和统计背景下的工作需求；2)为每个数学操作工具提供从基本功能到更高级功能的研讨会；3)提供研讨会，允许参与者在专家的支持下，按照自己的节奏学习他们选择的数学行动工具的特定功能；4)在内容课程和方法课程中为每个技术工具提供使用该工具的车间负责人；5)通过对教师专业知识的感知影响和在教学中使用数学行动工具的自我报告来评估研讨会的有效性。期望讲习班参与者在离开时具备将数学行动技术纳入其课程所需的专门知识。参与者在使用数学行动技术中自我效能感的发展将为未来的工作坊设计提供信息，并有可能为未来的教育研究提供信息。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This workshop aims to contribute to the national need for high quality mathematics teaching by improving the preparation of future mathematics teachers. The workshop focuses on helping mathematics education faculty develop expertise with mathematics action technologies. These technologies include tools and devices that compute and display the results of mathematical equations, such as graphing calculators and computer simulations. This interactive workshop will provide mathematics education faculty with opportunities to learn how to use mathematics action technology as learners. In addition, the faculty participants will consider the ways they might implement these technologies in their courses for prospective secondary mathematics teachers. Approximately 50 faculty from across the U.S. will participate in the workshop, gaining practice with mathematics action tools that span the needs of different mathematics and statistics courses. The main goal of this project is to improve faculty expertise in teaching undergraduate courses for future secondary mathematics teachers. To this end, it will plan and implement a 2.5-day workshop for instructors of undergraduate mathematics content and pedagogical methods courses that are intended to prepare future teachers to teach mathematics with technology. The project will provide beginning through advanced level sessions in which faculty will learn how to use mathematics action technologies as learners and consider the ways they might implement them in their courses. Specifically the project will: 1) Provide workshop sessions on a variety of mathematics action tools that span the needs of those working in geometric, algebraic/function, and statistics contexts; 2) Provide workshop sessions that range (and build) from basic functionality to more advanced functionality for each mathematics action tool; 3) Provide workshop sessions that allow participants to work at their own pace on specific functions of a mathematics action tool of their choice with the support of experts; 4) Provide workshop leaders for each technology tool who use the tool in content courses and methods courses; and 5) Evaluate the effectiveness of the workshop through perceived impact on faculty expertise and self-reports of mathematics action tool use in instruction. Workshop participants are expected to leave with the expertise needed to begin to incorporate mathematics action technologies into their courses. What is learned about the development of participants' self-efficacy in use of mathematics action technology will inform future workshop design and has the potential to also inform future educational research studies.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.