Framing Research on Activities as Mathematical Experiences

这个创新发展项目是由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划，旨在推进新的方法，并以证据为基础的理解，在非正式环境中的STEM学习的设计和开发资助。这包括提供多种途径，以扩大获得和参与STEM学习经验，推进非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估，以及发展参与者对深入学习的理解。这项试点和可行性研究将探讨在博物馆制作和修补活动中加强数学的战略，并为通过制作扩大家庭参与数学的全面研究奠定基础。该提案直接建立在NSF资助的Math in the Making会议的基础上。在这次会议期间，关于如何真正突出和增强数学在制作和修补经验，以及不同的数学增强方法可能会影响学习者的经验和结果的问题，成为研究人员，教育工作者和数学家的关键问题。该项目旨在提供一个实用的透镜，帮助研究人员和教育工作者将STEM中的主题与制作和修补经验联系起来。该项目还试图通过探索活动设计和促进策略如何影响游客如何理解体验的性质和目标，以及这些游客体验如何塑造学习成果，来促进对博物馆学习的理论理解。该项目旨在更深入地探索这些数学增强策略中最有前途的策略，作为下一个项目提出并开发一个理论框架，用于理解和描述这些策略如何影响家庭如何理解和参与创客体验中的数学。通过与社区组织合作开发的几种文化响应方法，该项目将研究创客体验中的数学如何影响参与者的参与和学习。 该项目最终将设计一项研究。 该项目开发的报告和资源将广泛传播给研究人员、数学家和教育工作者。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Innovations in Development project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants. This Pilot and Feasibility study will investigate strategies for enhancing the mathematics in museum-based making and tinkering activities and lay the foundation for a full research study on broadening family participation in mathematics through making. This proposal builds directly on the NSF-funded Math in the Making convening. During this convening, questions about how to authentically highlight and enhance the mathematics in making and tinkering experiences, and how different math-enhancement approaches might influence learner experiences and outcomes, emerged as critical issues for researchers, educators, and mathematicians alike. The project aims to provide a practical lens to help researchers and educators connect topics across STEM with making and tinkering experiences. The project also seeks to advance theoretical understandings of museum-based learning by exploring ways that activity design and facilitation strategies influence how visitors understand the nature and goals of the experience and, in turn, how these visitor experiences shape learning outcomes.The project is designed to explore the most promising of these math-enhancement strategies in more depth, to propose as a next project and develop a theoretical framework for understanding and describing how these strategies influence how families understand and engage with the mathematics in maker experiences. Through several culturally-responsive approaches developed in collaboration with community-based organizations, the project will research how mathematics in maker experiences influences participant engagement and learning. The project will culminate in the design of a research study. Reports and resources developed by the project will be broadly disseminated to researchers, mathematicians, and educators.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.