National Aeronautics and Space Administration-American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges Project Coalition: Laboratory Technical Activity and Laboratory...

本课题旨在解决如何提高两年制大学生的数学学习水平和参与数学的问题。总体目标是提供短期和长期的两年制大学教师和学生一系列课堂材料，在真实应用的背景下培养学生的数学学习。该项目是美国国家航空航天局（NASA）、美国两年制大学数学协会（AMATYC）和首都社区技术学院之间的合作项目。20（20）名两年制大学教师组成两人小组，将与肯尼迪航天中心的科学家和工程师合作，生产10（10）个实验室技术活动（LTAs）和20个衍生产品。LTAs是完整的学习单元，使两年制大学生在AMATYC的数学十字路口所表达的改革原则框架内了解技术和数学的相互依存关系。衍生产品包括从课堂学习单元到将科技世界的快照与数学联系起来的小插图。发展过程始于1998年在肯尼迪航天中心举办的夏季讲习班，经过四个起草阶段和相关审查，最后以传播结束。传播将包括在专业协会组织的会议上的发言和通过一个基于网络的电子图书项目。

This project addresses the problem of increasing two-year college students' level of mathematical learning and participation in mathematics. The overarching goal is to provide, in both near and long term, two-year college faculty and students with a range of classroom materials that foster students' mathematical learning within a context of authentic applications. The project is a collaboration among the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC), and Capital Community-Technical College. Twenty (20) two-year college faculty grouped in two-person teams, will collaborate with Kennedy Space Center scientists and engineers to produce ten (10) Laboratory Technical Activities (LTAs) and twenty (20) Spinoffs. The LTAs are complete learning units that expose two-year college students to the interdependence of technology and mathematics within the framework of the Reform Principles expressed by AMATYC's Crossroads in Mathematics. The Spinoffs range from class-ready learning units to vignettes connecting snapshots of the technological world with mathematics. The development process begins with a 1998 summer workshop at the Kennedy Space Center, extends through four drafting stages with associate reviews, and culminates with dissemination. Dissemination will include presentations at meetings organized by professional associations and via a Web-based electronic book project.