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IBL classroom: Students discussing their board work.

Immersing yourself in IBL at Westfield

Wouldn't it be amazing to develop a collection of IBL hubs or centers across the US where mathematics faculty could immerse themselves in a broad variety of IBL classroom experiences?

Graded Student Work

Assessment: Exams

One traditional way of assessment in a College class is in the form of mid-term or final exams. How does this fit in with an Inquiry-Based approach to learning mathematics?

Proud students presenting their ideas on the board

Rights and Responsibilities: Learning Contract

A Learning Contract can make the roles and responsibilities of students and faculty explicit and allow students to make a conscious commitment to learning in this class.

Active student participation

Assessment: Class Participation

Students are actively engaged in making sense of mathematical investigations, on their own, in their group, and with the entire class. I share some ideas about assessing the students' level of participation in, and contribution to, the work in the class.

First Day of the Semester: Good Activities

For the first day especially, we choose investigations that are easy to understand but deep in content, with multiple entry points. The following problems are a few that we have found to be good starter investigations.

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