Research: InforMath: Mathematics to Enrich Learning Experiences in Science and Art Museums

这个研究项目建立了一个新的研究中心，InforMath Collaborative，汇集了圣地亚哥巴尔博亚公园艺术和科学博物馆的大学教育研究人员和专业人员。InforMath协作项目正在调查和建设非正式学习机构支持数学内容和身份学习的能力。通过将研究、设计和专业发展结合起来的持续合作，InforMath Collaborative的成员正在对展品和项目进行基于设计的研究，将参与博物馆的艺术和科学内容与拓扑学和射影几何的数学结合起来。InforMath协作项目更广泛的目标是改变对数学的文化认知，拓宽学习者接触这门学科的途径。该项目旨在开发非正式的数学学习体验，使数学易于理解，以身体为基础，具有创造性，并与广泛的其他知识领域（包括艺术和科学）密切相关。该项目将建立和加强从事非正式数学学习的区域和国家教育专业人员网络，并扩大非正式机构的能力，以支持有吸引力的、创新的、内容丰富的和具有文化变革意义的数学学习体验。

This research project establishes a new research center, the InforMath Collaborative, that brings together university educational researchers and professionals at art and science museums in San Diego's Balboa Park. The InforMath Collaborative is investigating and building the capacity of informal learning institutions to support content and identity learning in mathematics. Through sustained collaborations that unite research, design, and professional development, members of the InforMath Collaborative are conducting design-based research on exhibits and programs that integrate art and science content from participating museums with the mathematics of topology and projective geometry. The broader goal of the InforMath Collaborative is to transform cultural perceptions of mathematics in ways that broaden learners' access to the discipline. The project aims to develop informal mathematical learning experiences that make mathematics feel accessible, body-based, creative, and deeply relevant to a wide array of other knowledge domains, including both art and science. The project will build and strengthen regional and national networks of educational professionals who work in informal mathematics learning and expand the capacity of informal institutions to support engaging, innovative, content-rich, and culturally transformative mathematical learning experiences.