Teaching Inquiry-Oriented Mathematics: Establishing Support for Novice Lecturers
Teaching Inquiry-Oriented Mathematics: Establishing Support for Novice Lecturers

Author(s): Inés Gómez-Chacón, Antonio Diaz-Cano, Juan-Antonio Infante, Adrian Riesco
Subject(s): Higher Education , Pedagogy
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: PLATINUM project; Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Mathematics education; IBME; CoI at UCM; The Matrix Factorisation Inquiry Project;
Summary/Abstract: The professional development of novice lecturers is considered to be of crucial importance in the PLATINUM project. In this chapter, we present what a group of lecturers at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (mathematicians and mathematics education researchers), constituted as a Community of Inquiry (CoI), considers valuable for the development of the professional knowledge of mathematics lecturers. With this aim, the group has designed learning tasks and developed seminars within the framework of the PLATINUM Project. Referring to the three-layer model outlined in Chapter 2, this chapter describes the interaction between the second layer, inquiry into teaching mathematics (lecturers using inquiry to explore the design and implementation of tasks, problems, and activities in classrooms), and the third layer, inquiry into research for a professional development programme for mathematics lecturers, which takes the results in developing the teaching of mathematics in order to systematise advanced areas and professional development programs at the institutional level.

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