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The Math Forum is a research and educational enterprise of the Drexel School of Education.
Our center for math education will strive to make it easy for math teachers to find the best Internet resources available for their specific needs. Many providers of math resources on the Internet and virtual libraries have created collections that try to point to useful Internet math sites. Unfortunately, however, there is not yet enough coordination among these efforts to provide one-stop access for teachers, who must now spend time visiting many different sites to keep current or discover all of what is available.
Just as important, most Internet collections are not designed to fit the ways teachers think about their work. Thus, the Math Forum will aim to organize Web resources for mathematics education.
Through the Math Forum we will expand our efforts to place substantive mathematical and pedagogical materials on the Web. We will communicate with and support groups that are already providing resources for the classroom, and will ourselves pursue experiments in generating materials based on the work of the teachers who use them.
In particular we will work with professional development programs run by BBN, DIMACS, Park City, Woodrow Wilson, and others to build relationships with teachers that will tell us what is needed. We'll help these teachers contribute to and make use of what is offered.
Finally, we plan to extend our existing projects, such as the Problem of the Week, Ask Dr. Math, and our geometry newsgroups, into other math subject areas. In all cases we will be looking for projects that take full advantage of the new technologies brought to education by the World Wide Web.
A new area of our Web site, Forum Web Units and Lessons, already features just these kinds of projects. It's directly accessible from the Forum home page.
If you've visited us lately, you'll have noticed that the Geometry Forum Web site has undergone some major changes. We've been trying to create a community space that is recognizable and engaging, and to find better ways to make it easy for our users to find exactly what they're looking for.
We call our newest area Forum Web Units and Lessons. It features a small but growing collection of hands-on materials created by Forum participants and staff for use in math classrooms. We hope to see many more such units in the near future: educational materials that take advantage of the ability of the World Wide Web to combine hypertext, interactivity, multimedia functions, and collaboration at a distance.
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The Math Forum is a research and educational enterprise of the Drexel School of Education.
Sarah Seastone