Software for Active Learning in Mathematics and Teacher Preparation

数学教育工作者通过NCTM标准和MAA数学教师专业标准，呼吁在数学教育的各个层面进行更积极的学习。该项目正在为基础教育和商业专业的有限数学课程开发一种教学方法，在课程和教学中实现这些标准的目标。课程材料结合了积极和协作的学习技巧、写作和强调批判性思维的解决问题的方法。该软件保持了SEW的结构，这是一个获奖的人文软件程序，带有教授数学策略的教程，以及鼓励同行合作的公告栏。正在编写SEW-数学软件，以便本教程向Polya的问题解决模型灌输图形和计算器功能等工具。此外，为了培训和再培训数学教师，从而影响教育基础设施，小学和中学数学教育专业正在使用SAW-数学，并在教师在职讲习班上介绍，允许他们使用Polya教程，并将软件(在其作者模式下)调整为适合他们的学生和班级，作为主动学习的模型。

Mathematics educators, through the NCTM Standards and MAA Professional Standards for Teachers of Mathematics, call for more active learning at all levels of mathematics education. This project is developing a teaching approach for the finite mathematics course, taken by elementary education and business majors, which implements the goals of these standards in both curriculum and instruction. The course materials incorporate active and collaborative learning techniques, writing, and a problem-solving approach which emphasizes critical thinking. The software keep the structure of SEEN, an award-winning humanities software program, with tutorials that teach mathematical strategies plus a bulletin board that encourages peer collaboration. The SEEN-MATH software is being written so that the tutorial inculcates Polya's problem-solving model with tools such as graphing and calculator capabilities. In addition, to train and retrain mathematics teachers, thus affecting the educational infrastructure, SEEN-MATH is being used with elementary education and secondary mathematics education majors, and presented in an in-service workshops for teachers, allowing them to use the Polya tutorial and also adapt the software (in its author mode) to their students and classes as a model of active learning.