Multimedia Mathematics: Across the Curriculum and Across the Nation

这个由内布拉斯加州大学和俄克拉荷马州立大学领导的联合项目的目标是整合数学的教学和学习及其在科学、工程和定量学科中的应用。这将通过现代课程来完成，为学生提供数学科学的整体观点，将许多学科的基本概念连贯地联系在一起。一个关键的成功因素是一个沟通结构，将来自不同学科的教育者聚集在一起，分享想法、目标和策略。该项目还将提供服务和材料，鼓励对课程创新和新的呈现方式进行试验和发展。从一开始，该计划将重点关注来自不同学科和背景的许多学生的需求。一个特别重要的群体将是那些为K-12教学生涯做准备的学生。实施方案针对的是转学专业或转学院校的学生，而且很容易适应其他院校。俄克拉何马-内布拉斯加联盟的主要产品将是一个持久的综合核心数学、科学和工程课程，该课程基于跨学科多媒体数学学习模块集群的集合。每个模块本身就是一个主题或应用程序，但它也是一个更大的垂直和水平结构的一部分。这个想法是把其他学科的基本概念聚集在一起，横向关注与同时学到的基本数学概念自然吻合的基本概念。纵向上，学生将在不止一个场合和不止一门课程中重温主题，展示数学的力量。因此，在一门给定的课程中，学生将目睹单一数学思想的几次应用，但在几年后，他或她也将多次遇到一个特定的应用，其中数学的复杂性越来越高。这种结构将提供数学发展的动力，对学生目前正在学习的主题的欣赏，以及对许多学科的基本思想如何结合在一起的理解。多媒体，广义地定义为包括计算机代数、绘图软件、绘图计算器、电视、交互式数字视频、cd - rom和互联网连接，它既可以作为一种将注意力集中在需要的变化上的工具，也可以作为一种进行变化的工具。联盟学校将在整个项目中结合它们在这一领域的优势，建立新的、更有效的演示文稿，并扩大学生可访问的应用范围。

The goal of this consortium project led by the University of Nebraska and Oklahoma State University is to integrate the teaching and learning of mathematics and its applications in science, engineering, and quantitative subjects. This will be accomplished through a modern curriculum that provides students with a holistic view of mathematical science coherently tying together fundamental concepts from many disciplines. A critical success factor is a communications structure bringing together educators from many disciplines to share ideas, goals, and strategies. The project will also put in place services and materials that encourage experimentation with and development of curricular innovations as well as new modes of presentation. From the outset the program will focus on the needs of many students from many disciplines and backgrounds. An especially important group will be those students preparing for careers in K-12 teaching. The implementation plan provides for students who change majors or institutions, and it will be easily adaptable to other colleges and universities. The primary product of the Oklahoma-Nebraska Consortium will be an enduring integrated core math, science and engineering curriculum based on a collection of cross-curricular, multimedia mathematics learning module clusters. Each module would be a topic or application in itself, but it would also be part of a larger vertical and horizontal structure. The idea is to draw together and focus horizontally on fundamental concepts from other disciplines that fit naturally with fundamental mathematics concepts learned at the same time. Vertically, students will revisit topics on more than one occasion and in more than one course, showing the power of mathematics as it unfolds. Thus in a given course, the student will witness several applications of a single mathematical idea, but over several years he or she will also encounter a particular application several times with increasing mathematical sophistication. This structure wil l provide motivation for mathematical development, an appreciation for topics students are currently studying, and an understanding of how fundamental ideas from many disciplines fit together. Multimedia, defined broadly to include computer algebra, graphing software, graphing calculators, television, interactive digital video, CD-ROMs, and Internet connections serves both as a device for focusing attention on changes that are needed and as a vehicle for making them. The Consortium schools will combine their strengths in this area throughout the program to establish new and more effective presentations and expand the range of applications that are accessible to students.