TY - BOOK

T1 - Didactics of Mathematics in Higher Education as a Scientific Discipline - Conference Proceedings

AU - Biehler, Rolf

AU - Hochmuth, Reinhard Karl

AU - Rück, Hans-Georg

A2 - Göller, Robin

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Mathematics education at the tertiary level is a practical concern in many institutions of higher education, and efforts are being made world-wide to improve its quality. A growing number of mathematicians and mathematics educators see the need for doing research and thoughtful development work in mathematics education not only at school level, but also at tertiary level. To give momentum to the establishment of a scientific community of mathematiciansand mathematics educators whose concern is the theoretical reflection, the research-based empirical investigation of mathematics education at tertiary level, and theexchange of best- practice examples, the khdm (German Centre for Higher MathematicsEducation, www.khdm.de) and the Volkswagen Foundation jointly organized a conferencenamed “Didactics of Mathematics in Higher Education as a Scientific Discipline”, which was held from 1st to 4th December 2015 in Hannover, Germany, at Schloss Herrenhausen. We are delighted that about 100 experts from 16 different countries with scientific background in mathematics or mathematics education followed our invitation to present and to discuss research and innovative efforts for improving the teaching and learning of mathematics at tertiary level, as well as experiences from teaching practice and empirical and theoreticalresearch approaches that aim at a better understanding students’ difficulties in learning mathematics and in learning to think mathematically.

AB - Mathematics education at the tertiary level is a practical concern in many institutions of higher education, and efforts are being made world-wide to improve its quality. A growing number of mathematicians and mathematics educators see the need for doing research and thoughtful development work in mathematics education not only at school level, but also at tertiary level. To give momentum to the establishment of a scientific community of mathematiciansand mathematics educators whose concern is the theoretical reflection, the research-based empirical investigation of mathematics education at tertiary level, and theexchange of best- practice examples, the khdm (German Centre for Higher MathematicsEducation, www.khdm.de) and the Volkswagen Foundation jointly organized a conferencenamed “Didactics of Mathematics in Higher Education as a Scientific Discipline”, which was held from 1st to 4th December 2015 in Hannover, Germany, at Schloss Herrenhausen. We are delighted that about 100 experts from 16 different countries with scientific background in mathematics or mathematics education followed our invitation to present and to discuss research and innovative efforts for improving the teaching and learning of mathematics at tertiary level, as well as experiences from teaching practice and empirical and theoreticalresearch approaches that aim at a better understanding students’ difficulties in learning mathematics and in learning to think mathematically.

KW - Didactics of Mathematics

KW - Mathematics

KW - Educational science

M3 - Conference proceedings

T3 - khdm-Report

BT - Didactics of Mathematics in Higher Education as a Scientific Discipline - Conference Proceedings

PB - Kompetenzentrum Hochschuldidaktik Mathematik - Universität Kassel

CY - Kassel

T2 - khdm Conference 2015

Y2 - 1 December 2015 through 4 December 2015

ER -