Support and Development of the NRICH Mathematics Enrichment Website

NRICH网站发布了5至19岁的免费数学教育补充材料/在2004/5年度，该网站吸引了超过170万次网站访问(超过4900万次点击)。NRICH的材料鼓励创造性的，自信的数学思维方法，并可用于所有能力范围。我们还鼓励学生将个人的问题解答发送到网站上发布，增加了在线数学社区的感觉。NRICH旨在培养核心数学技能，并在适合学龄观众的水平上理解EPSRC资助的许多数学活动领域(例如，数论-通过研究数字、整数、因子、计数、有理、无理和实数、素数、模算术；代数、几何、统计学、力学、离散数学和组合学以及数学史)。前教育国务大臣查尔斯·克拉克议员最近将NRICH描述为“丰富而富有创造力的资源供应”。该项目多次受到DFES的表彰。最近，我们在史密斯关于14岁后数学教育的报告中被引用，并在DFES的回应《让数学有价值》(2004年6月)中被单独提及。在2003年2月分发给所有中学的《中学教育转型文件》中，我们的活动被特别列为改善和支持教师学科知识的一种手段，而我们的资源也在1998年DfEE关于国家算术战略的报告中得到了建议。EPSRC要求的资金将为网站开发丰富内容材料、根据国家课程描述符来标记以及开发和维护网站的结构和搜索设施的持续工作提供部分支持。它还将为我们计划在该地点进行的新开发提供部分支持。这些措施的重点是进一步提高网站对教师的益处，包括探索通过提供机制来提供链接资源的“套餐”来鼓励教师更有条理地使用资源的方法，以及开发提供多种问题解决目的的互动学习环境。该网站最近的发展包括提供学习环境，通过解决问题来支持数学的教和学。我们还计划进一步编写教师随附问题的笔记，为教师在课堂上的使用和资源的数学背景提供更具创造性的指导，并根据教师的反馈，我们计划根据国家数字框架绘制资源图。

The NRICH website publishes free mathematics education enrichment material for ages 5 to 19 / in 2004/5 the website attracted over 1.7 million site visits (more than 49 million hits). The NRICH material encourages creative, confident approaches to mathematical thinking and can be used with all ability ranges. We also encourage pupils to send in individual solutions to problems for publication on the site, adding to the sense of an online mathematical community. NRICH seeks to develop core mathematical skills and an understanding, at a level appropriate for school-age audiences, of many of the areas of mathematical activity funded by EPSRC (e.g. number theory - through investigating properties of numbers, integers, factors, counting, rational, irrational and real numbers, primes, modular arithmetic; algebra, geometry, statistics, mechanics, discrete mathematics and combinatorics and the history of mathematics).The Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP, former Secretary of State for Education, recently described NRICH as 'a rich and creative supply of resources'. The project has been repeatedly commended by the DfES. Most recently we were cited in the Smith report on Post-14 Maths Education and singled out for mention in the DfES's response, Making Mathematics Count (June 2004). The MMP's activities were specifically cited as a means of improving and supporting teachers' subject knowledge in the Transforming Secondary Education paper circulated to all secondary schools in February 2003, while our resources were also recommended in the 1998 DfEE report on the National Numeracy Strategy.The funding requested from EPSRC would provide part support for the ongoing work of developing enrichment content material for the website, tagging it against National Curriculum descriptors and developing and maintaining the website's structure and search facilities. It would also provide part support for our planned new developments for the site. These focus on further enhancing the benefits of the site for teachers, and include exploring means of encouraging more structured use of the resources by teachers through providing mechanisms to deliver 'packages' of linked resources, and developing interactive learning environments providing multiple problem solving purposes. Recent developments on the site include the delivery of learning environments to support the teaching and learning of mathematics through problem solving. We also plan to further develop our teachers' notes accompanying problems, to give more creative guidance to teachers on their use in the classroom and the mathematical context of the resources, and, in response to teacher feedback, we are planning to map resources against the National Numeracy Framework.