Conference: What, where, and for what purpose is the mathematics in mathematics teacher education?

该项目旨在通过培养教师的数学教育能力，促进公平的数学教学，从而服务于国家利益。在过去的二十年里，数学家和教育工作者合作提高了教师数学课程的质量，特别是数学系开设的那些课程。许多部门现在认识到以特殊的方式培养教师的重要性，即熟练的教学利用数学知识。然而，最近的结果表明，尽管在教师教得好和学生学得好方面总体上取得了成功，但数学教师教育界还需要做更多的工作来挑战教育不平等。这次会议将召集不同层次的数学和教育领域的领导人。与会者将被要求考虑如何转变数学课程和序列，以发展教师的数学科学知识，同时努力实现公平。会议的目的将是在从幼儿园到大学的数学课程不断演变的背景下，支持项目向公平的转变。会议的目标将是：(1)向利益相关者提供资源，以改变教师的数学教育，使教师能够接触到更多来自历史上服务不足的社区的学生；(2)阐明数学系在为教师设计数学作业时所扮演的角色的原则，以便来自历史上服务不足社区的未来学生有更多机会蓬勃发展。为此，会议发言者和包括数学家和数学教师教育工作者在内的50多个利益攸关方将为跨不同群体合作设计数学课程和课程序列的拟议指导方针做出贡献，这些课程和序列在教师的数学教育背景下努力实现公平；并提出评估数学课程和序列中使用的数学和教学实践的原则和衡量标准，同时关注公平。这些产品在范围上将是新颖的。他们将代表各年级和利益攸关方的专业知识和经验的综合，他们将同时专注于数学科学中的公平和知识。这次会议的发现有可能形成教师数学教育指导文件的更新，例如由数学科学会议委员会和美国数学协会数学本科课程委员会发布的指导文件。NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划也为该项目提供了资金。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to serve the national interest by building capacity for a mathematical education of teachers that fosters equitable mathematics teaching. In the past two decades, mathematicians and educators have partnered to improve the quality of mathematics courses for teachers, particularly those offered in departments of mathematics. Many departments now recognize the importance of preparing teachers in the special ways that skillful teaching harnesses mathematics knowledge. Yet recent results suggest that despite overall successes in how well teachers teach and how well students learn, there is more that the mathematics teacher education community needs to do to challenge educational inequities. This conference will convene leaders in mathematics and education across levels. Conference participants will be asked to consider how mathematics courses and sequences can be transformed to develop teachers’ knowledge of the mathematical sciences while also working toward equity. The conference will aim to support program transformation toward equity in the context of evolving mathematics curriculum from kindergarten through college.The goals of the conference will be to: (1) Provide resources to stakeholders to transform the mathematical education of teachers so that teachers can reach more students from historically under-served communities; (2) Articulate principles for the roles of mathematics departments in designing mathematical work for teachers so their future students from historically under-served communities have more opportunity to flourish. To do so, the conference speakers and more than 50 stakeholders, including mathematicians and mathematics teacher educators, will contribute to proposed guidelines for collaborating across different groups to design mathematics courses and sequences of courses that work toward equity in the context of the mathematical education of teachers; and proposed principles and metrics for assessing mathematical and pedagogical practices used in mathematics courses and sequences with an eye on equity. These products will be novel in scope. They will represent a synthesis of expertise and experience across grade bands and stakeholders, and they will focus simultaneously on equity and knowledge in the mathematical sciences. Findings of this conference have the potential to shape updates of guiding documents for the mathematical education of teachers such as those published by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences and the Mathematical Association of America’s Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program has also contributed funding to this project.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.