Mathematical Sciences: MAA Curriculum Action Project

该项目将为规划活动提供支助， 开展数学课程行动计划 美国协会（MAA）。 该项目是一个全面的 国家努力促进和扩大加强 在本科阶段学习数学科学。 的 规划期的主要目标是发展和 为大学生数学传播知识议程 可以指导国家科学基金会，MAA和 更广泛的数学社区。 第二个目标是 就这一议程开展广泛对话， 数学界和许多外部支持者 他们自己的努力与大学数学有着松散的联系。 该项目的长期目标是促进课程 改革;确定和宣传有效的 创新;重塑教师态度;提高量化 扫盲;并使评估与适当的课程相一致 目标. MAA将召集一系列焦点小组， 帮助确定问题和建议，将争取其20- 九个区域科，发起基层讨论， 将编写一份报告供广泛分发。 MAA计划 在随后的几年里扩大该项目，以帮助促进 广泛实施有效的方法，以学院 数学

This project will provide support for planning activities to launch the Curriculum Action Project of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). This project is a comprehensive national effort to stimulate and amplify efforts to strengthen the mathematical sciences at the undergraduate level. The primary objective of the planning period is to develop and disseminate an intellectual agenda for undergraduate mathematics that can guide the National Science Foundation, the MAA, and the broader mathematical community. A secondary objective is to initiate a broad-based dialogue about this agenda both within the mathematics community and with the many external constituencies whose own efforts are loosely linked to collegiate mathematics. The project's long-term goals are to promote curriculum reform; to identify and publicize examples of effective innovation; to reshape faculty attitudes; to improve quantitative literacy; and to align assessment with appropriate curriculum objectives. The MAA will convene a series of focus groups to help identify issues and recommendations, will enlist its twenty- nine regional sections to initiate grass-root discussions, and will prepare a report for wide distribution. The MAA plans to extend this project in subsequent years to help promote widespread implementation of effective approaches to collegiate mathematics.