STEM视角下研究生数学折纸科普团队的实践探索

Practical Exploration of Postgraduate Mathematics Origami Science Popularization Team from the Perspective of STEM

STEM教育以批判性和创造性的思维方式,应用不同学科的知识和技能应对挑战,为处理复杂的实际问题打好基础。上海师范大学数理学院组建了一支学科教学(数学)专业的研究生团队,做数学折纸科普方面的实践探索,教师专业发展能够提高STEM教育的有效性,其内容包括增长教师的内容知识(学科知识)、教学内容知识(如何教授学科的主题)、教学知识(一般知识教学)。STEM教育为培养数学技能提供了背景,在STEM教育中可以更直观深入地理解数学核心内容,数学的概念和知识又可促进对其他STEM学科的思想和概念的理解。另外,STEM教育是一个非常新的领域,其教学资源相对较缺乏,在日常教学中实践仍有一定的困难。教师对STEM教学缺乏信心,将STEM教学方法与他们的专业内容相结合比较困难。因此,研究与STEM教育相关的数学教学理论及实践,对促进我国STEM教育发展有一定的借鉴意义。

STEM education takes a critical and creative way of thinking, applies the knowledge and skills of different disciplines to meet challenges, and lays a good foundation for dealing with complex practical problems. The school of mathematics and physics of Shanghai Normal University has set up a graduate team specialized in subject teaching (Mathematics) to do practical exploration in mathematics origami science popularization. Teachers’ professional development can improve the effectiveness of STEM education, including increasing teachers’ content knowledge (subject knowledge), teaching content knowledge (how to teach the subject) and teaching knowledge (general knowledge teaching). STEM education provides a background for cultivating mathematical skills. In STEM education, we can more intuitively and deeply understand the core content of mathematics, and the concepts and knowledge of mathematics can promote the understanding of the ideas and concepts of other STEM disciplines. In addition, STEM education is a very new field, its teaching resources are relatively scarce, and there are still some difficulties in daily teaching practice. Teachers lack confidence in STEM teaching, and it is difficult to combine STEM teaching methods with their professional content. Therefore, the study of mathematics teaching theory and practice related to STEM education has a certain reference significance for promoting the development of STEM education in China.