Home, School and Community: After School Math for Grades 3-5

发展研究中心（DSC）将实施“家庭、学校和社区：3-5年级课后数学”方案，该方案针对课后方案中的风险儿童和低收入儿童。 课后数学培训青年工作者，以帮助3-5年级的学生更好地理解测量和几何概念，建立在NSF资助的K-2年级家庭，学校和社区数学计划（ESI #97-05421）的成功基础上。 该项目开发、实地测试和评估了30个数学游戏和10个故事指南，支持儿童的社会和数学发展，同时强调合作学习。 所有材料的内容将与国家数学标准保持一致。 还计划为青年工作者举办一个12小时的专业发展讲习班，为促进者或青年工作者领导人举办一个18小时的讲习班。 将制作两个培训录像带和一份促进者手册，以支持项目的这一方面。 现场测试将在堪萨斯、路易斯安那和密苏里州进行。 这一建议得到了扩大，特别强调农村社区，将实地试验点的数量从50个增加到100个。 一名农村外联专家将举行焦点小组会议，以确定农村方案的独特需求，并领导这些社区的实地测试。 预计将培训3 200多名青年工作者，并将建立一支由300多名青年工作者领导人组成的国家干部队伍。

The Developmental Studies Center (DSC) will implement "Home, School and Community: AfterSchool Math for Grades 3-5," a program that targets at-risk and low income children in afterschool programs. AfterSchool Math trains youth workers to help students in grades 3-5 better understand measurement and geometry concepts, building on the success of the NSF-funded Home, School and Community mathematics program for grades K-2 (ESI #97-05421). The project develops, field-tests and evaluates thirty math games and ten story guides, which support the social and mathematical development of children, while emphasizing cooperative learning. The content for all materials will be aligned with national standards in mathematics. A 12-hour professional development workshop for youth workers and an 18-hour workshop for facilitators or youth worker leaders are also planned. Two training videos and a facilitator manual will be produced to support this aspect of the project. Field testing will occur in Kansas, Louisiana and Missouri. This proposal has been augmented to include a special emphasis on rural communities which doubles the number of field test sites from 50 to 100. A Rural Outreach Specialist will conduct focus group meetings to determine needs unique to rural programs and lead the field testing in these communities. It is anticipated that over 3,200 youth workers will be trained and a national cadre of more than 300 youth worker leaders will be created.