Tracking Katrina: Algebra Project Instructional Materials Development Using Stories by Displaced New Orleans Students

代数计划公司将利用卡特里娜飓风灾后的机会，为新奥尔良的教育重建注入新的思想。他们将利用这个机会介绍新的数学教育材料，让学生们说出飓风过后的经历。这些材料将帮助新奥尔良和许多其他地方的教育工作者处理这些事件引发的问题。该项目有三个目标：(1)制作课堂教学材料，使用新奥尔良学生的故事作为数学概念发展的起点；(2)建立一个学生故事和其他材料的资源库，并制定一份课堂使用指南；(3)由新奥尔良第九区现已分散的学生、教师和有关社区成员撰写一份报告，为新奥尔良学校以及其他有流离失所学生入学的学校解决飓风后的问题提出建议。该项目将使用为开发工作量身定制的软件，这些产品将在互联网上供其他人使用。该项目将使新奥尔良第九区弗雷德里克·道格拉斯高中的学校社区成员，其支线中学和另外两所新奥尔良第九区高中的成员与代数项目合作，该项目一直在NSF资助下开发高中数学教学材料#0137855。学生自编故事（例如，疏散之旅的故事）将作为教学模块的起点，该模块针对6-10年级国家和州数学框架中包含的一些特定数学概念。代数项目的工作人员和中心的学生将使用在过去的工作中已经被证明有效的方法来激励学生和当地教育利益相关者解决飓风后出现的教育问题。该项目为一直与这些学生和家庭合作的教育工作者提供了一种方式，以促进以学生为中心的教学材料和以社区为中心的新奥尔良教育倡议的发展。该项目还将产生具体的教学材料，这些材料将在未来几年有用。

The Algebra Project, Inc., will use the opportunity of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to infuse new ideas into the re-building of education in New Orleans. They will use the occasion to introduce new materials for mathematics education that give voice to students' experiences in the aftermath of the hurricanes. These materials will assist educators in New Orleans and many other sites as they work on issues that have been raised by these events.The project has three objectives: (1) to produce classroom instructional materials that use New Orleans students' stories as a starting point for the development of mathematics concepts; (2) to produce a resource database of student-generated stories and other materials and a guide for classroom use; (3) to produce a report by the now dispersed students, teachers and concerned community members from the New Orleans 9th ward with recommendations for addressing the aftermath of the hurricanes in the New Orleans schools as well as in other schools where displaced students are enrolling. The project will use software tailored for the development work and these products will be available for use by others over the internet.The project will enable members of the school community of the Frederick Douglass High School in the New Orleans 9th ward, its feeder middle school and members of two other New Orleans 9th ward high schools to collaborate with the Algebra Project, which has been developing instructional materials for high school mathematics under NSF grant #0137855.Student-generated stories (for example, a story of an evacuation trip) will serve as the starting point for instructional modules that target some specific mathematics concepts contained in the national and state mathematics frameworks for Grades 6-10. Staff of the Algebra Project, and of Students at the Center, will use methods that have already proved effective in their past work to motivate students and local education stakeholders to address educational issues that have arisen in the aftermath of the hurricanes. This project offers a way for educators who have been working with these students and families to facilitate the development of student-centered instructional materials and community-centered ideas for educational initiatives in New Orleans. The project will also generate specific instructional materials that will be useful for years in the future.