High School to College Mathematics Pathways: Preparing Students for the Future

虽然有许多报告和建议，应该做什么与高中和中学后数学教学，需要更多的工作，了解这些改进是如何采取和实施在实践中，特别是衔接从高中到中学后数学教育。数学科学会议委员会（CBMS），其成员包括主要的数学和统计学会，将主办一次会议，发起一项全国性的努力，弥合高中和大学数学之间的差距。这次会议的具体目标将是建立以州为基础的团队-包括K-12、两年制大学和州高等教育系统的领导者-这将协调行动，通过中学后数学教育改善高中的衔接。会议之后将进行为期18个月的联网和支持，随后将举行第二次论坛，报告进展、成就和遇到的障碍。该项目将综合各州的行动计划，供广泛分享，并作为其他各州的指南。对这些国家进展情况的正式评估将产生对其他国家极为宝贵的信息。通过促进高中到大学之间更好的沟通和衔接，并关注经常阻碍学生进步的个人和社交技能，我们应该看到实施计划，改善学生对中学后教育的准备和提高成功率。该计划有可能对所有类别的学生产生广泛的影响，对目前风险最大的学生，包括来自资源不足学校的学生，来自代表性不足的少数民族的学生，以及那些家庭中第一代上大学的学生具有特别强的影响。这些学生面临的风险最大，他们将从精心设计的基于国家的努力中受益最多，以改善这种表达。该项目得到了Discovery Research PreK-12和Improving Undergraduate STEM Education项目的资助。这项工作将建立在查尔斯A。达纳中心在得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校，并将借鉴最近的报告和CBMS成员协会的建议。会议将建立大约20至25个州为基础的团队，每个团队代表国家的教育部，旗舰大学和高等教育系统，以及两年制学院。团队还将借鉴国家领导人谁一直在努力改善数学教育在高中或大学水平。该论坛计划于2019年春季举行，将汇集来自参与国的团队，以了解其他国家所做的工作;了解可用的建议，计划和支持;并计划自己的行动方案。作为这次会议的后续行动，将在多个地点开展大规模的实施工作，这为研究这些问题和学习在不同州环境下有效的战略提供了一个独特的机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

While there are many reports and recommendations of what should be done with both high school and post-secondary mathematics instruction, much more work is needed on understanding how these improvements are taken up and implemented in practice, particularly the articulation from high school to post-secondary mathematics education. The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), whose membership includes the major mathematics and statistics societies, will host a conference to initiate a national effort bridging the gaps between high school and college mathematics. The specific goal of this conference will be the creation of state-based teams---incorporating leaders in K-12, two-year colleges, and the state's higher education system---that will coordinate action to improve the articulation of high school through post-secondary mathematics education. The conference will be followed by an 18- month period of networking and support, leading to a second forum to report on progress, accomplishments, and obstacles encountered. The project will result in a synthesis of the states' action plans to be shared broadly and serve as a guide for other states. The formal assessment of their progress will produce information that will be extremely valuable to other states. By facilitating better communication and articulation across the high school to college divide and paying attention to the personal and social skills that often impede student progress, we should see the implementation of programs that create improved student readiness for post-secondary education and improved success. This program has the potential for broad impact across all categories of students, with particularly strong implications for students who are currently at most risk, including students from under-resourced schools, from under-represented minorities, and those who are in their family's first generation to go to college. These are the students who are most at risk and who would benefit the most from well-crafted state-based efforts to improve this articulation. This project is supported with funding from the Discovery Research PreK-12 and Improving Undergraduate STEM Education programs. This effort will build on the existing work by the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and will draw on recent reports and recommendations of CBMS member societies. The conference will be built around 20 to 25 state-based teams, each team representing the state's department of education, the flagship university and higher education system, and the two-year college system. Teams will also draw on state leaders who have been engaged in efforts to improve mathematics education at either the high school or college level. This forum, planned for spring of 2019, will bring together teams from the participating states to learn what other states have done; to get acquainted with the recommendations, programs, and supports that are available; and to plan their own course of action. The large-scale and multi-venue effort at implementation that will be conducted as follow-up to this conference provides a unique opportunity to study these issues and learn strategies that are effective within different state contexts.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.