Support and Development of the NRICH Mathematics Enrichment Website

NRICH网站为5至19岁的儿童免费提供数学教育强化材料，2004/2005年，该网站吸引了170多万次访问（超过4 900万次点击）。NRICH材料鼓励创造性，自信的方法来数学思维，并可用于所有能力范围。我们还鼓励学生发送个人解决问题的方法，以便在网站上发布，增加了在线数学社区的感觉。NRICH旨在发展核心数学技能和理解，在适当的水平，为学龄观众，数学活动的许多领域由EPSRC资助（例如数论-透过研究数、整数、因数、计数、有理数、无理数及真实的数、质数、模算术的性质;代数、几何、统计、力学、离散数学和组合数学以及数学史）。前教育大臣查尔斯·克拉克议员阁下，最近将NRICH描述为“丰富和创造性的资源供应”。该项目多次受到DfES的赞扬。最近，我们在史密斯关于14岁后数学教育的报告中被引用，并在DfES的回应中被单独提及，使数学发挥作用（2004年6月）。在2003年2月分发给所有中学的《中等教育改革》文件中，特别提到了小额供资和微型企业方案的活动，作为提高和支持教师学科知识的一种手段，我们的资源也在1998年DfEE关于国家数字战略的报告中得到了建议。EPSRC要求的资金将为正在进行的为国家数字战略开发丰富内容材料的工作提供部分支持。网站，根据国家课程描述符进行标记，并开发和维护网站的结构和搜索设施。它还将为我们计划在该网站上进行的新开发提供部分支持。这些措施的重点是进一步加强该网站对教师的裨益，包括探讨如何透过提供机制，提供“一套”相连的资源，鼓励教师更有系统地使用资源，以及发展互动学习环境，提供多种解决问题的用途。该网站最近的发展包括提供学习环境，以支持通过解决问题进行数学教学。我们还计划进一步发展我们的教师的笔记伴随的问题，给他们在课堂上使用和资源的数学背景教师更具创造性的指导，并在回应教师的反馈，我们正计划映射资源对国家计算框架。

The NRICH website publishes free mathematics education enrichment material for ages 5 to 19 / in 2004/5 the website attracted over 1.7 million site visits (more than 49 million hits). The NRICH material encourages creative, confident approaches to mathematical thinking and can be used with all ability ranges. We also encourage pupils to send in individual solutions to problems for publication on the site, adding to the sense of an online mathematical community. NRICH seeks to develop core mathematical skills and an understanding, at a level appropriate for school-age audiences, of many of the areas of mathematical activity funded by EPSRC (e.g. number theory - through investigating properties of numbers, integers, factors, counting, rational, irrational and real numbers, primes, modular arithmetic; algebra, geometry, statistics, mechanics, discrete mathematics and combinatorics and the history of mathematics).The Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP, former Secretary of State for Education, recently described NRICH as 'a rich and creative supply of resources'. The project has been repeatedly commended by the DfES. Most recently we were cited in the Smith report on Post-14 Maths Education and singled out for mention in the DfES's response, Making Mathematics Count (June 2004). The MMP's activities were specifically cited as a means of improving and supporting teachers' subject knowledge in the Transforming Secondary Education paper circulated to all secondary schools in February 2003, while our resources were also recommended in the 1998 DfEE report on the National Numeracy Strategy.The funding requested from EPSRC would provide part support for the ongoing work of developing enrichment content material for the website, tagging it against National Curriculum descriptors and developing and maintaining the website's structure and search facilities. It would also provide part support for our planned new developments for the site. These focus on further enhancing the benefits of the site for teachers, and include exploring means of encouraging more structured use of the resources by teachers through providing mechanisms to deliver 'packages' of linked resources, and developing interactive learning environments providing multiple problem solving purposes. Recent developments on the site include the delivery of learning environments to support the teaching and learning of mathematics through problem solving. We also plan to further develop our teachers' notes accompanying problems, to give more creative guidance to teachers on their use in the classroom and the mathematical context of the resources, and, in response to teacher feedback, we are planning to map resources against the National Numeracy Framework.