History Across the Mathematics Curriculum for Preservice Teachers

教育工作者普遍认为，职前教师从教授一些数学史中受益匪浅。全国数学教师理事会(NCTM)、美国数学协会(MAA)和国际数学教学委员会(ICMI)的出版物都提出了将历史纳入数学课程的建议，特别是针对职前教师的建议。通过研讨会和其他直接传播思想和材料，这个概念验证项目教育教师如何将历史内容融入数学课程，并提供这样做的资源。为了通过强调数学思想的历史发展来改善数学教师的准备，该项目正在制作一份教科书补充材料，供高等教育教师使用，将数学史整合到任职前数学教师的课程中。这包括小学和中学的教师。该副刊包括许多练习，让学生有机会体验特定时期和文化的数学。这些活动旨在为未来的教师做好准备，并赋予他们能力，让他们向孩子们传授数学在整个历史中扮演的重要而令人兴奋的角色。学生们对数学的跨学科性质有了更多的了解，因为历史上许多发展都是由其他学科中出现的问题推动的。各机构也得到了帮助，因为这些材料有助于在整个数学课程中注入历史。技术在数学教育中发挥着越来越重要的作用，并提供了可用于解构和重建历史结果和论点的计算和可视化工具。开发的许多资源涉及到技术工具的使用，如几何画板、Excel工作表和计算机代数系统。

There is a broad endorsement among educators that pre-service teachers benefit greatly from being taught some history of mathematics. Publications of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the Mathematics Association of America (MAA), and the International Committee on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) have included recommendations for the incorporation of history into the mathematics curriculum, especially for pre-service teachers. Through workshops and other direct dissemination of ideas and material, this proof of concept project educates faculty on ways to integrate historical content into mathematics courses and provides resources to do this.To improve the preparation of mathematics teachers by emphasizing historical development of mathematical ideas, the project is producing a textbook supplement consisting of resources for higher education faculty to use to integrate history of mathematics into courses taken by pre-service mathematics teachers. This includes teachers at both the elementary and secondary levels. The supplement includes many exercises that give students opportunities to experience the mathematics of a given period and culture. The activities are designed to prepare and empower future teachers to teach children about the important and exciting role that mathematics has played throughout history. Students are gaining an increased understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of mathematics, since many developments have been historically motivated by problems arising in other disciplines. Institutions are also being aided since this material helps make it possible to inject history across the mathematics curriculum. Technology has an increasingly important role to play in mathematics education, and provides computational and visual tools that can be used to deconstruct and reconstruct historical results and arguments. Many of the resources developed involve the use of technological tools such as Geometer's Sketchpad, Excel worksheets, and computer algebra systems.