Improving Secondary School Geometry Instruction in Iowa

该项目的主要目标是通过培养爱荷华州的在职领导来提高中学几何教学的质量。将在1988年和1989年夏季为68名未来的领导人举办密集的夏季讲习班。这些课程中要强调的一些主题涉及几何变换和矢量解析几何在计算机图形学中的应用。讲习班还涉及教学问题，如几何课程的新方向和新主题的呈现方法。将选出三到四名大师教师，通过展示现代方法和材料，为教学人员做出贡献。他们将在车间里担任助理。来自州教育部和州的地区教育机构的数学监督员将协助该项目，帮助选择领导者，并在规划和实施将作为该项目产品开发的在职网络方面提供协助。

The main goals of the project are to improve the quality of geometry instruction in secondary schools by developing inservice leaders throughout the state of Iowa. There are to be intensive summer workshops offered for 68 prospective leaders during the summers 1988 and 1989. Some of the topics to be emphasized in these courses deal with geometric transformations and vector analytic geometry applied to computer graphics. The workshops also deal with didactical issues such as new directions in the geometry curriculum and methods of presentation of the new topics. Three or four master teachers are to be chosen to contribute to the instructional staff by demonstrating modern methods and materials. They are to serve as associates in the workshops. Mathematics supervisors from the State Department of Education and the regional education agencies in the state are to assist the project by helping to select the leaders as well as providing assistance in planning and implementing the inservice network that is to develop as a product of the project.