An Interdisciplinary Approach to Science,Mathematics, and Reading: Learning as Children Learn

A project was designed to implement an integrated curriculum in mathematics, science, and reading by promoting the professional growth of K-4 in-service teachers through a 6-hour graduate course. The course adopts a view of teachers' knowledge acquisition based on constructivism, a perspective currently more accepted for elementary children than for teachers. The effectiveness of the project in the Ist year was evaluated in part by employing content examinations, portfolios, journals, questionnaires, and course assignments. The findings suggest implications for teacher educators, program administrators, teachers in K-4, and the children served by the educational system.     

Integrating Science and Mathematics Education: Historical Analysis

A number of national science and mathematics education professional associations, and recently technology education associations, are united in their support for the integration of science and mathematics teaching and learning. The purpose of this historical analysis is two‐fold: (a) to survey the nature and number of documents related to integrated science and mathematics education published from 1901 through 2001 and (b) to compare the nature and number of integrated science and mathematics documents published from 1990 through 2001 to the previous 89 years (1901–1989). Based upon this historical analysis, three conclusions have emerged. First, national and state standards in science and mathematics education have resulted in greater attention to integrated science and mathematics education, particularly in the area of teacher education, as evidenced by the proliferation of documents on this topic published from 1901–2001. Second, the historical comparison between the time periods of 1901–1989 versus 1990–2001 reveals a grade‐level shift in integrated instructional documents. Middle school science continues to be highlighted in integrated instructional documents, but surprisingly, a greater emphasis upon secondary mathematics and science education is apparent in the integration literature published from 1990–2001. Third, although several theoretical integration models have been posited in the literature published from 1990–2001, more empirical research grounded in these theoretical models is clearly needed in the 21st century.     

数学在科学技术中的地位和作用

数学是一切科学的得力助手和工具,它有时由于其它科学的促进而发展,有时也超前发展,领先的发展最终定能获得应用.任何一门科学的发展若离开了数学,就不能准确地刻画客观事物变化的状态,更不能从已知推出未知,因而也就削弱了科学预见的可能性和精确度.如果没有数学对其它科学的渗透,也就不能使人类的认识真正上升为理性.     

融合现代科技理论和方法，优化高等数学课程体系

科学技术在不段发展，而高等数学的课程体系却一成不变，造成了数学教学的相对落后．本文分析了高等数学课程现状，介绍了本校在高等数学课程体系优化过程中融合现代科技理论和方法的实践．以适应现代教育的需求和发展．     

Wearing the Letter Jacket: Legitimate Participation in a Collaborative Science,Mathematics, Engineering,and Technology Education Reform Project

This study examines one NSF‐funded Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation and describes the complexities of such a science education reform effort. A theoretical model based in community, culture, and identity is used to address key questions: How did institutional ideologies, structures, policies, and practices influence the Collaborative's success? What unique problems were associated with the university and school partnership? How did K‐12 teachers' participation affect their development and the success of the Collaborative? Findings indicate that though K‐12 participants were deemed as “pedagogy experts” and shared the inquiry‐based culture espoused in the Collaborative, they felt both as project insiders and outsiders. This was due to issues of status between university faculty and K‐12 teachers; teachers' less‐than‐active role in the Collaborative; and the constraints and narrow focus that resulted from long‐established institutional, social, and political structures and that marginalized, delegitimized, excluded, and proved unattractive to teachers.     

Rhetoric,Reality, and Possibilities: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Secondary Mathematics

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has proposed a broad core mathematics curriculum for all high school students. One emphasis in that core is on “mathematical connections” both among mathematical topics and between mathematics and other disciplines of study. It is suggested that mathematics should become a more integrated part of all students' high school education. In this article, working definitions for the terms curriculum, interdisciplinary, and integrated and a model of three categories of curriculum design based on the work of Harold Alberty are developed. This article then examines how a “connected” mathematics core curriculum might be situated within the different categories of curriculum organization. Examples from research on interdisciplinary education in high schools are presented. Issues arising from this study suggest the need for a greater emphasis on building and using models of curriculum integration both to frame and to give impetus to the work being done by teachers and administrators.     

中国科大数学系是怎样办学的

中国科学技术大学原副校长、数学系教授龚昇先生2011年1月10日不幸病逝.本刊编委会、编辑部于2011年1月第1期发表《沉痛悼念著名数学家龚？教授》一文,简短介绍了他的生平和学术成就.本期特转载他为《中国科学技术大学数学五十年》一书所作的序,以纪念这位杰出的数学家和数学教育家.本文标题为编者所加.1958年,经中共中央...     

数学思想方法在高等数学教育中的作用

从高等数学教育改革的角度,阐述了数学思想方法的含义和高等数学中的基本数学思想方法,论述了在高等数学教育中加强数学思想方法教学的重要性.