Public Understanding of Math Initiative

Widmeyer-Baker Group(TWBG)与全国数学教师委员会(NCTM)和全国工程少数民族行动委员会(NACME)合作，提议设计和实施一项针对全国、州和当地受众的公众理解和参与数学的运动。这项活动的主要目标是让公众思考美国学生在中学年级应该知道和能够做什么，以及数学对成功的职业生涯和过上有趣而富有成效的生活很重要的原因。这一方法将使不同阶层的美国人通过NCTM设计的数学难题接触到数学。TWBG将以各种方式和格式广泛使用这些可供相机使用的数学难题。这项活动的主要受众是普通成年人。次要受众是中学生和他们的父母，包括充当父母代理的人(即大家庭、养父母、日托提供者等)。这项倡议将是一项基层努力，能够覆盖全美的每个社区。预计TWBG将创造性地利用和/或与大众媒体、政策/行政/教学和基层组织、公司以及联邦和州机构合作，传播关于这项运动的信息。

9813062BakerThe Widmeyer-Baker Group (TWBG) working in conjunction with The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Incorporated (NACME) proposes to design and implement a campaign of Public Understanding and Engagement of Mathematics targeted toward national, state, and local audiences. The primary goal of the campaign is to engage the publics' thinking about what students in the United States should know and be able to do in mathematics in the middle school grades and the reasons mathematics is important to successful careers and to live an interesting and productive life. The approach will expose a diverse cross-section of Americans to mathematics using math puzzles designed by NCTM. TWBG will make widespread use of these camera-ready math puzzles in a variety of ways and formats. The primary audience for this campaign is the general adult population. The secondary audience is the middle school students and their parents, including persons serving as parent surrogates (i.e., extended family, foster parents, daycare providers, etc.).This initiative will be a grassroots effort capable of reaching every community throughout the United States. TWBG will be expected to make creative use and/ or collaboration with mass media, policy/administrative/teaching and grassroots organizations, corporations, and federal and state agencies in dissemination of the message about the campaign.