Navajo Nations Math Circle Project Workshop

该项目是一个以社区为基础的项目，将提供研讨会，将迪内学院的专业数学家和职前数学教师与全国最大的美洲原住民保留地的初中和高中教师和学生联系起来。该项目将在这个社区创建一个项目，长期目标是这些课外数学活动将帮助未来和现在的美洲原住民教师吸引更多的美洲原住民进入数学和数学密集型STEM领域。数据证实，美洲原住民在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)职业以及为学生在STEM地区工作做准备的高等教育项目中代表性不足。这些学生很少有机会看到“学校数学”以外的数学，因此接触非常规问题、调查以及数学家和其他数学密集型学科中的其他人使用的数学实践的机会有限。这一方案具有多面性，但植根于“数学界”的专业发展和数学成长模式。该项目将招聘和支持数学专业人员，在迪内学院职前数学教师的帮助下，在纳瓦霍民族学校开设讲习班，并指导教师和学生开展围绕数学圈问题的活动。同时，职前教师和数学家将在讲习班与会者的帮助下，努力开展与纳瓦霍民族6-12年级学生文化相关的活动。这些脚本将用于课后充实数学圈的风格。该项目还将为迪内学院和整个纳瓦霍国家的学生和教师举办一年一度的大型数学节和研讨会提供便利。将对该项目的成果进行三重评估，由目前参与制定与文化相关的数学活动的外部教员团队、一个咨询委员会和迪内学院职前教师教育工作者进行内部评估。

This project is a community-based program that will offer workshops which will connect professional mathematicians and pre-service mathematics teachers from Diné College, with middle and high school teachers and students across the nation's largest Native American reservation. The project will create a program in this community, with the long-term goal that these extra-curricular mathematical activities will help future and present Native American teachers draw more Native Americans into mathematics and math-intensive STEM fields. Data confirm that Native Americans are under-represented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) careers and in higher education programs that would prepare students for work in STEM areas. These students have few opportunities to see mathematics beyond "school math" and therefore have limited exposure to non-routine problems, investigations, and the mathematical practices used by mathematicians and others in math-intense disciplines. This program has a multi-faceted approach, but is rooted in the "math circles" professional development and mathematical growth model. The project will recruit and support mathematics professionals to offer workshops at Navajo Nation schools, with the help of pre-service Mathematics teachers from Diné College and lead teachers and students in activities centered around math circle problems. Simultaneously, the pre-service teachers and mathematicians, with the help of workshop attendees, will work to produce activities which are culturally relevant to students from the Navajo Nation in grades 6-12. These scripts will be used for after-school enrichment in the style of math circles. The project leads will also facilitate a large annual math festival and workshop for students and teachers at Diné College and across the Navajo nation. Evaluation of the outcomes of the project will be tri-fold, with observations by an external team of faculty, presently involved with developing culturally relevant mathematics activities, an advisory board and an internal evaluation by the pre-service teacher educator from Diné College.