Mathematical Colloquium
Upcoming talks:
| Mon 10 Nov 2025, 15:15: Patricio Herbst (University of Michigan) Using simulations to teach about problem-based instruction in mathematics: Design considerations and research opportunities |
| In this talk I’ll describe the use of Design Based Research in an ongoing project to develop and improve a set of digital simulations that seek to develop mathematics teachers’ capacities to teach geometry through problems and classroom discussions. The intervention is inscribed in the approach known as practice-based teacher education and the simulations are conceived as approximations of practice—where the teacher-learner practices key tasks of teaching. The first simulation acquaints teachers with the problem space: using a problem about constructing a circle tangent to two lines to teach the tangent segments theorem where they act as observers of an avatar teacher. Teachers then simulate teaching the whole lesson to a class of student avatars for the first time, having the opportunity to select and sequence students’ work for classroom discussion and eliciting and responding comments from students. The following two simulations give them opportunity to notice students’ work and to respond to students’ contribution respectively. Finally, they have another opportunity at teaching the whole lesson. I’ll share considerations for the design of these 4 simulations and how they developed as a result of waves of data collection and analysis. Initial observation of the performance differences when simulating the teaching of the whole lesson (before and after the two learning simulations) suggest these are associated with performance gains. I’ll share how we are using participants’ responses during the learning activities to reveal learning traces that might help explain those gains. _______________________ Invited by Prof. Stefan Ufer |
| Theresienstr. 39, München. Room B 349 |
| Tue 18 Nov 2025, 16:30: Laurent Jacques (UCLouvain) TBA |
| TBA ____________________ Invited by Prof. Johannes Maly |
| Theresienstr. 39, München. Room A 027 |
| Tue 27 Jan 2026, 16:30: Sjoerd Dirksen (Utrecht University) TBA |
| TBA __________________ Invited by Prof. Johannes Maly |
| Theresienstr. 39, München. Room A 027 |
All lectures are on Tuesdays at 4:30 pm in lecture hall A027 unless otherwise noticed.
Looking for past events? You may find them in the Munich Mathematical Calendar.