Mathematics Education
The Mathematics Education group’s mission is to foster mathematics education that is experienced as meaningful and relevant for today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. We pursue this mission by conducting research, designing education, and preparing future teachers.
We acknowledge that mathematics is a major topic at all levels of education and that current environmental issues and digitalized societies require careful consideration of what and how is taught. We strive to help all learners see mathematics as useful, meaningful, and empowering, and to have fun with it. We view mathematics not as a finished and isolated building, but as a human activity with connections to science and arts. Mathematics is an activity that helps students recognize quantitative and geometrical structures and patterns in the world and use these to reason and act critically, analytically, and creatively. As such, it is a fundamental activity for connecting society with multidisciplinary themes in science and contributing to scientific literacy for life.
The main strategic aims of the ME research group include:
- Achieve meaningful and relevant mathematics education for all;
- Design and research of effective teaching approaches and learning environments;
- Collaborate within FI, but also regionally, nationally and internationally with all stakeholders involved in teacher education and curriculum innovation.
The main overall strategic challenge for the MathEd group over the next five years will be to make choices in line with the above strategic aims and to hire new staff to support realizing these aims. To this end, a staffing plan for the coming five years will be established that includes both quantity and quality.