Linking Mathematics and Biology in the High Schools: A Conference to be Convened at the DIMACS Center at Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, October 1-2, 2004

这笔赠款将资助一次会议，在高中课程的限制下探索数学和生物学科之间的联系。会议将探讨可纳入生物科学课程的数学和计算机科学主题，以及可包括在数学课程中的生物学主题。会议的议程将包括支持这些联系的材料的可用性和发展，可能为高中教师提供信息的本科教育的发展，以及在生物和数学之间的接口的教师培训的替代模式。会议将产生一份报告，重点是使高中学生能够接触到生物和数学之间的接口的未来挑战。

This grant would fund a conference exploring connections between the disciplines of mathematics and biology within the constraints of the high school curriculum. The conference will explore topics in mathematics and computer science that could be included in biological science courses, as well as topics in biology that could be included in mathematics courses. The agenda of the conference will include the availability and development of materials supporting these linkages, developments in undergraduate education that might inform teachers in high schools and alternative models for teacher training at the interface between biology and mathematics.The conference will produce a report focusing on future challenges in making the interface between biology and mathematics accessible to high school students.