Mathematics and Undergraduate Education: A New Framework for Mutual Invigoration

该项目是印第安纳大学系统的一项努力，旨在重组数学与其他本科课程的联系方式。合作机构包括布鲁明顿国际大学、印第安纳大学/印第安纳大学普渡大学印第安纳波利斯分校、东国际大学、科科莫国际大学、西北国际大学、南本德国际大学、东南国际大学和韦恩堡国际大学。该项目的最终目标是为数学系和其他学科的院系之间的合作创造一个新的框架，并在本科生中创造一种新的文化，以振兴数学学习和重振本科教育。有三个相互关联的目标：1)创建跨学科课程，让学生通过情境化问题解决来学习新的数学思想和获得新的工具，并涉及数学系与来自不同学科的其他教员的合作。2)通过发展学术和社会基础设施来改变学生对数学的态度，鼓励所有学生看到数学与其他学科、现实世界以及他们自己的抱负和目标的关系；3)改变学术基础设施，使印第安纳大学八个校区及其他地区的数学教学发生永久性的积极变化。

The project is an Indiana University System effort to restructure the ways in which mathematics relates to the rest of the undergraduate curriculum. The collaborating institutions are IU-Bloomington, IUPUI/Indiana University- Purdue University Indianapolis, IU-East, IU-Kokomo, IU- Northwest, IU-South Bend, IU-Southeast, and IUPU-Fort Wayne. The ultimate goal of the project is to create a new framework for collaboration between mathematics departments and the faculties of other disciplines, as well as a new culture among undergraduates that will revitalize the learning of mathematics and reinvigorate undergraduate education. There are three interrelated objectives: 1) To create interdisciplinary courses in which students learn new mathematical ideas and acquire new tools through contextualizes problem solving and which involve the cooperation of the mathematics faculty with other faculty from a variety of disciplines. 2) To change student attitudes toward mathematics by developing an academic and social infrastructure to encourage all students to see the relationship to other subjects, the real world, and their own ambitions and goals; 3) To change the academic infrastructure to make permanent positive changes in the teaching and learning of mathematics on the eight Indiana University campuses and beyond.