Disseminating New Knowledge About Mathematics Instruction

该项目将在数学教育研究和专业教学界之间建立持续的合作关系，以解释和传播有关中小学有效数学教学的知识。该项目的一个主要目标是向职业教师传授中小学数学的学习方法，以及如何更有效地教授数学。另一个平行的目标是发展研究人员和教师之间的一种交流形式，以支持在改进教学实践中周到和持续地使用研究。这个项目将产生两种类型的产品，具体的书面材料和传播研究成果的模式，应该影响教学。书面材料将包括：综合章节，由数学教育家和认知研究者团队撰写，将总结与3-8年级相关的数学主题的当前研究知识；由专家教师撰写的研究翻译，将作为教师学习小学数学的资源，其形式与学校课程、教学问题和机会直接相关；由专家教师开发的培训材料，通过提供反思、讨论和教师教学规划的材料，将研究成果应用于实际课堂实践。该项目开发的模型将展示一种方法，通过一个由主要教师工会支持的专业发展网络，将研究成果带给实践教育工作者。本项目开辟和发展的交流渠道可以有效地将教学研究带入课堂，同时将教学专业的知识和经验带给数学研究者和教育工作者。

This project will develop a sustained collaboration between the mathematics education research and professional teaching communities for the purpose of interpreting and disseminating knowledge about effective mathematics instruction in the elementary and middle school grades. A major goal of the project is to develop and communicate usable knowledge to career teachers about how mathematics in elementary and middle school is learned and how it may be taught more effectively. A parallel goal is the development of a form of communication between researches and teachers that will support thoughtful and continuing use of research in improving instructional practice. Two types of products will emerge from this project, specific written materials and a model for the dissemination of research findings that should effect teaching. The written materials will include: Synthesis chapters, written by teams of mathematics educators and cognitive researchers, that will summarize current research knowledge about mathematics topics relevant to grades 3-8; Research translations, written by expert teachers, that will be used as resources for teachers to learn elementary mathematics in a form tied directly to the school curriculum and to problems and opportunities for teaching; Training materials, developed by expert teachers, that will apply the research findings to actual classroom practice, by providing material for reflection, discussion, and teacher planning of instruction. The model developed by the project will demonstrate a means of bringing research findings to practicing educators via a professional development network supported by a major teachers' union. The channels of communication opened and developed by this project can be effectively used to bring instructional research to the classroom, while at the same time bringing the knowledge and experience of teaching professions to the attention of mathematics researchers and educators.