The New Mexico Initiative for Math Reform

现代职场需要更多精通数学和技术的大学数学和微积分入门毕业生。为了满足这一需求，一个由五所新墨西哥州社区学院和该州两年制大学数学协会组成的联盟创建了新墨西哥州数学改革倡议。该项目旨在通过数学改革和技术来帮助学生提高大学数学和微积分入门课程的学习。课堂干预是通过增加和持续区域数学教师的专业发展，通过数学改革和利用计算机教室实施改革的方式来实现的。其操作方法是递归地应用会议和讲习班，参与者在掌握和磨练数学改革技术后，在该地区分散开来，主办自己的讲习班。这种研讨会的迭代确保了材料的“指数性交付”。需要提供服务的地区是新墨西哥州及其邻近各州。合作伙伴是阿尔伯克基技术职业学院、新墨西哥军事学院、阿拉莫戈多的新墨西哥州立大学、多纳安娜的新墨西哥州立大学、巴伦西亚的新墨西哥大学、圣胡安社区学院和一个专业组织--新墨西哥州两年制学院数学协会。这对大学数学和微积分入门课程的学生是有影响的。该项目有可能惠及新墨西哥地区的每一名这样的学生。该项目正在外部调查员的协助下进行形成性和终结性的评估。该项目的成果由参与者自己通过自己的讲习班、向美国两年制学院协会等专业组织发表的报告以及在学术期刊上发表的出版物来传播。

The modern workplace needs more mathematically and technologically literate graduates in introductory college mathematics and calculus than it is receiving. To address this need, a consortium of five New Mexico community colleges and the state's mathematics association of two-year colleges created the New Mexico Initiative for Math Reform. The project is designed to help improve student learning in introductory college mathematics and calculus through mathematics reform and technology. Classroom intervention is being achieved by increasing and continuing the professional development of regional mathematics faculty member in the ways of mathematics reform and use of computer classrooms to implement reform. The method of operation is the recursive application of sessions and workshops in which the participants, after acquiring and honing the techniques of mathematics reform, fan out across the region and host their own workshops. This iteration of workshops ensures an "exponential delivery" of the material. The region to be serviced is New Mexico and adjacent areas of its bordering states. The partners are the Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute, New Mexico Military Institute, New Mexico State University at Alamogordo, New Mexico State University at Dona Ana, University of New Mexico at Valencia, San Juan Community College, and one professional organization, New Mexico Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges. The impact is on the students of introductory college mathematics and calculus. The project has the potential of reaching every such student in the New Mexican region. The project is being evaluated with the aid of an outside investigator both formatively and summatively. The results of the project are being disseminated by the participants themselves through their own workshops, by presentations to professional organizations such as the American Association of Two Year Colleges, and by publications in scholarly journals.