The HSOR Project: Insinuating OR into High School Mathematics Classrooms

Thomas G. Edwards - t.g.edwards@wayne.edu
Wayne State University, College of Education, Detroit, Michigan

Kenneth R. Chelst - kchelst@wayne.edu
Wayne State University, Department of Industrial and
Manufacturing Engineering, Detroit, Michigan

Abstract

The field of operations research faces a visibility problem that represents a serious problem in attracting the next generation of operations researchers and in building a base of consumers of operations research studies. A major goal of the initiative described here, the High School Operations Research Outreach (HSOR), is to bring operations research into high school mathematics classrooms. This serves the dual purpose of increasing public awareness of the field of operations research and introducing rich, real-world problem situations to students of high school mathematics. HSOR has attempted to do so by developing a series of classroom materials set in OR contexts and by establishing a cadre of OR professionals who are willing and available to present these materials to groups of high school mathematics teachers.

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10.1287/ited.4.3.01

Citation Information
Edwards, T. G. Chelst, K. R. 2004. The HSOR Project: Insinuating OR into High School Mathematics Classrooms. INFORMS Trans. Ed. 4(3) 1-8. Available online at http://ite.pubs.informs.org/.

DOI: 10.1287/ited.4.3.1