Origins and Implementation of the Project
Origins and Implementation of the Project

Author(s): Josef Rebenda, Yuriy Rogovchenko
Subject(s): Higher Education , Methodology and research technology, Pedagogy
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: PLATINUM project; IBME; Mathematics; mathematicians; educational projects; teaching and learning mathematics;
Summary/Abstract: The main theme of the book about the PLATINUM project is inquiry-based mathematics education and, in general, inquiry as a form of exploration and discovery in the classroom. In this chapter, we inquire into the following important issue: How did it happen that the project became the reality? How did the project evolve and what was its impact on the individuals who worked together on the project? It is not very common to see mathematicians and mathematics educators collaborate productively in a large-scale joint educational project (see Mohn, 2018). Therefore, we would like to provide the reader with an honest insiders' account of what might bring mathematicians and mathematics educators to the collaboration in a joint project about teaching and learning mathematics. Our narrative might surprise those who believe that a project should always start with a concrete idea|for us it did not begin with an idea, our starting point was a heterogeneous group of university teachers and researchers interested in the collaboration in a project on university mathematics teaching. At the outset, let us briefly review the key characteristics of the PLATINUM project.

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