Progress in Integrating Technology in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics at Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)

该提案将支持杰克逊州立大学提供培训研讨会和后续活动，以发展数学教师在数学科学中使用Mathematica作为教学、学习和研究工具的专业知识，并促进数学科学领域为期一年的技术辅助本科研究。每年，该项目将吸引来自密西西比州及邻近州至少六所hbcu的30名数学教师，旨在实现以下具体目标：(1)在两年的时间里，每年培训30名HBCU教师，以获得将Mathematica软件整合到微积分和高年级数学科学课程的教学中去的专业知识；(2)允许每位参与培训的教师至少从本机构的一个数学科学专业从事一年的研究工作，并将他们安排到其他机构进行暑期研究工作。(3)培训每个参与教师如何制定Mathematica课程指南和手册，将编程与Mathematica和课程交付相结合。拟议的项目活动旨在作为学习、讨论和交流在数学科学教学、学习和研究中使用技术的信息的论坛。课程内容包括离散数学、线性代数、微分方程、运筹学与矩阵理论、数值分析等本科课程的最有效教学方法，这些课程本身就是数值性质的，如Mathematica等计算机编程平台。参与的HBCU数学教师将参与国内和国际智力对话，以解决技术满意度和学生学习收益的问题，并传播技术辅助数学教学的最佳实践。这些项目的研究结果将通过会议、期刊出版物、研讨会以及杰克逊州立大学的网站和部门网页与学术机构、知识分子和专业团体分享。

This proposal will support Jackson State University to offer training workshops and follow-on activities to develop mathematics faculty expertise in the use of Mathematica as a teaching, learning and research tool in the mathematical sciences and to promote year-long technology aided undergraduate research in the mathematical sciences. Each year, the program will attract 30 mathematics faculty from at least six HBCUs in Mississippi and neighboring states and is intended to achieve the following specific objectives: (1) train 30 HBCU faculty each year for two years to gain expertise in integrating the Mathematica software in the teaching and learning of calculus and upper division mathematical sciences courses, (2) allow each participating faculty member to engage at least one mathematical sciences major from their institution in a year-long research experience and place them in summer research experience at other institutions, and (3) train each participating faculty on how to develop Mathematica course guidelines and manuals integrating programming with Mathematica and course delivery. The proposed program activities are structured to serve as a forum for learning, discussion and exchange of information on the use of technology in teaching, learning, and research in the mathematical sciences. Sessions will be held on the most effective ways of teaching undergraduate courses such as discrete mathematics, linear algebra, differential equations, operations research and matrix theory, and numerical analysis which are inherently numerical with the computer programming platforms such as Mathematica. The participating HBCU mathematics faculty will engage in national and international intellectual conversations to address questions of satisfaction with technology and student learning gains and to disseminate the best practices of technology-assisted teaching and learning of mathematics. The findings of the projects will be shared with academic institutions and intellectual and professional communities through conferences, journal publications, and workshops and on the Jackson State University web sites and departmental web pages.