Mathematical Preparation of Elementary School Teachers

数学及其应用联合会(COMAP)要求提供一笔为期一年的规划赠款，用于开发一个大规模的长期项目，以解决在职前小学教师数学准备的所有方面，特别是数学教学课程和师资加强方面需要认真研究和规划全面的系统性变化的需要。该提案还将开始实施长期计划的关键目标。这项建议是先前资助的两个教师培训项目--TPE90-54620和TPE91-54518的直接结果和延伸。前者是数学、数学教育和教育领域的关键领导人的会议(3次会议)，包括教授、教师、监督员、国家监督员和研究人员。会议的一个成果是迫切需要更多地了解教师数学准备的现状；这导致了第二个资助项目对这一问题进行调查和研究。在埃克森基金会的资助下，与原与会者的一部分举行了另一次会议，以研究是否需要彻底改革和重新设计小学教师的小学数学课程及其所有后果，特别是数学界和数学系的作用和支持。提倡者要求为一个项目提供资金，该项目旨在为职前小学教师定义和开发特定的数学课程。这些课程的基础是MAA改革呼吁和NCTM改革文件，特别是《专业教学标准》和《课程和评估标准附录项目》所确定的框架。该项目将涉及四个主要目标，并规划实现这些目标的长期战略：就学/教数学的性质发展哲学立场，并根据以前制定的标准，为小学教师的数学准备开发内容课程；确定并在必要时计划编写体现该哲学和标准的材料；开发大规模、多地点的数学学院/教师增强项目；并争取专业组织、国家认证机构、各级主管人员、学区和特别是数学部门对该项目的支持。这个项目已经得到了全国数学教师委员会主席和埃克森基金会的支持，埃克森基金会是前两笔赠款的共同资金来源。咨询委员会代表了主要的数学组织：美国数学协会、全国数学教师理事会和美国数学学会。COMAP将通过提供相当于所需NSF资金的32%的支持来分担该项目的成本。

The Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, COMAP, requests funding for a one-year planning grant to develop a large- scale, long term project which addresses the need to carefully research, and plan comprehensive systemic changes in all aspects of the mathematics preparation of preservice elementary teachers, in particular the mathematics content courses and faculty enhancement. The proposal will also begin implementation of key goals of the long term plan. This proposal is a direct result and extension of two previously funded Teacher Preparation Projects, TPE 90-54620, and TPE 91-54518. The former was a conference (3 meetings) of key leaders in mathematics, mathematics education, and education, including professors, teachers, supervisors, state supervisors, and researchers. One outcome of the conference was the urgent need to learn more about the current state of the mathematics preparation of teachers; this led to the second funded project to conduct a survey and research this question. With Exxon Foundation funding, another meeting was held with a subset of the original participants to look at the need to completely overhaul and redesign the elementary mathematics curriculum for elementary teachers with all of its ramifications, in particular the role and support of the mathematics community and mathematics departments. The proposers request funds for a project to define and develop specific mathematics content courses for preservice elementary teachers. These courses are based on the framework defined by the MAA Call For Change and the NCTM reform documents, in particular the Professional Teaching Standards and the Addenda Project to the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards. The project will address four major goals and plan the long range strategies to address these goals: development of a philosophical position on the nature of learning/teaching mathematics and the development of content courses for the mathematics preparation of elementary teachers based on previously developed standards; identification and, if necessary, planning the production of materials which exemplify the philosophy and standards; development of large-scale, multi-site mathematics college/faculty enhancement projects; and enlisting support for the project from professional organizations, state certifying agencies, supervisors at all levels, school districts, and specially mathematics departments. This project has been endorsed by the president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and by the Exxon Foundation which has co-funded the two previous grants. The Advisory Board is representative of the major mathematics organizations: The Mathematical Association of America, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the American Mathematical Society. COMAP will cost-share the project by providing support equivalent to 32% of the requested NSF funding.