Animations, Portfolios and CD-ROM Technology in Science and Calculus

该提案是建立在BMCC成功的NSF本科师资加强计划的基础上的。该项目为数学教师提供暑期讲习班，强调学生小组合作，并使用计算机绘图师和计算机代数系统来创建书面荣誉项目和动画微积分电影。BMCC的学生中三分之二是女性，85%是非裔美国人和拉丁裔美国人。在NSF， DOE和MSIP的支持下，他们非常成功地吸引和留住了越来越多的女性和少数民族学生进入我们的微积分预科，微积分和微分方程课程。新的研讨会为研讨会增加了技术和协作学习方面的新技术，其中包括通过NSF-CCD资助开发的科学项目，CD-ROM技术，以及每年两次为期一天的学年研讨会。物理和化学教师以及数学教师参加了研讨会。该项目通过在两个夏季分别举办两次地区性暑期教师研讨会，与该地区的其他教师分享所学和发展。一个研讨会是为没有技术经验的教师准备科学和微积分序列的协作计算机组合。第二个研讨会是为在技术方面更有经验的教师准备的。每年两次为期一天的学年研讨会是后续活动。

This proposal is building on BMCC's successful NSF Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement program. The project is providing summer workshops for mathematics faculty which emphasize students working in groups and use of computer graphers and computer algebra systems to create written honors projects and animated calculus movies. The student population at BMCC is two-thirds women, and eighty-five percent African-American and Latino. With support from NSF, DOE, and MSIP, they have been highly successful in attracting and retaining increased numbers of women and minority students into our Precalculus, Calculus, and Differential Equations sequence. The new workshops are adding new techniques in technology and collaborative learning to the workshops which includes science projects developed through their NSF-CCD grant, CD-ROM technology, and two 1-day academic year workshops each year. Physics and chemistry faculty are attending the workshops as well as mathematics faculty. The project is sharing what is learned and developed with other faculty in the region by instituting two regional summer faculty workshops for each of two summers. One workshop is for faculty inexperienced in technology on the preparation of collaborative computer portfolios in Science and the Calculus sequence. The second workshop is for faculty more experienced in technology. Two 1-day academic year workshops each year are for follow-up activities.