Collaborative Research: Updating the WeBWorK National Problem Library

该项目建议对WebWorkK的NPL进行重大改进，并在全国范围内建立一个教师社区，以维护和管理NPL（国家公共图书馆）的未来角色，NPL是一个收集了超过25，000个家庭作业问题的集合，这些问题与WebWorkK一起分发。 WebWork是一个基于网络的家庭作业系统，被300多所学校使用，是一个开源系统，由数学家开发和维护。它得到了美国数学协会（MAA）的支持。 该项目的其他成果是改进了对NPL问题的组织，并开发了软件工具，以方便访问NPL。 完成后，数学教师将能够更容易地搜索图书馆的类型，他们想要的问题。 NPL和配套软件都促进了教学的改进，加强了数学教育的基础设施。 此外，该项目通过为有效的数学教学提供新的工具来促进数学教师的发展。

This project proposes to make significant improvements to WeBWorK's NPL, and build a community of faculty around the country to maintain and curate the future role of the NPL (National Public Library), which is a collection of over 25,000 homework problems that are distributed with WeBWorK. WeBWorK, a web-based homework system used by over 300 schools, is an open-source system, developed and maintained by mathematicians. It is supported by the Mathematics Association of America (MAA). Additional outcomes of the project are improving the organization of NPL problems and developing software tools to facilitate easy access to the NPL. Upon completion, mathematics instructors will be able to search the library more easily for problems of the type they want. Both the NPL and the accompanying software promote the improvement of teaching and enhance the infrastructure for education in mathematics. Moreover, the project fosters mathematics faculty development by making a new tool accessible for effective mathematics teaching.