Events
Spring Speaker Series 2026
- Thursday, January 22 @ 2 pm EST - Christopher C. Jett: Advocating for Racial Equity in Inquiry-Based Learning
- Tuesday, February 24 @ 3 pm EST - Gulden Karakok: Fostering Students’ Mathematical Creativity in Inquiry-Based Classrooms Through Tasks and Reflection
- Wednesday, March 25 @ 4:30 pm EDT - Jeff Ford: Explore, Conjecture, Apply, Prove: A framework for writing IBL lessons
- Monday, April 27 @ 1 pm EDT- Natalie Naehrig: Same Task, New Twist: Exploring Extrema in Calculus
MathFest 2024
Materials from our 2024 Contributed Paper Session on Inquiry-based Learning
MathFest 2023
Materials from our 2023 Contributed Paper Session on Inquiry-based Learning
Earlier Conference Materials
Past Fall and Spring Speaker Series
- Thursday, August 28 @ 4 pm EDT - Matthew G. Jones: Inquiring into Inquiry-Based Learning: A Peek Inside the Big Tent
- Tuesday, September 23 @ 12 pm EDT - Kayla Heffernan: Building Process Skills and Critical Thinking Through POGIL: A Guided Inquiry-Based Approach to Math
- Wednesday, October 22 @ 3 pm EDT - Rebecca Machen: Active Learning Meets AI: Enhancing Precalculus Engagement
- Video of the workshop: Active Learning Meets AI: Enhancing Precalculus Engagement
- Tuesday, November 18 @ 1 pm EST- Ben Sencindiver & Mary E. Pilgrim: Same Task, New Twist: Reframing Traditional Tasks to be More Inquiry-Based
- Tuesday, January 28 @ 4 pm EST - April Strom: Building Thinking Classrooms in College Mathematics
- Video of the workshop: Building Thinking Classrooms in College Mathematics (Passcode: #XsTpL1D)
- Tuesday, Februrary 25 @ 3 pm EDT - Lauren Rose: Incorporating Puzzles and Games into the Mathematics Classroom
- Video of the workshop: Incorporating Puzzles and Games into the Mathematics Classroom
- Thursday, March 27 @ 4 pm EDT - Kate Melhuish: Turning Proofs into Objects of Inquiry
- Video of the workshop: Turning Proofs into Objects of Inquiry
- Tuesday, April 1 @ 3 pm EST- Angie Hodge-Zickerman: TACTivities: An Embodied Way to Engage Learners
- Video of the workshop: TACTivities: An Embodied Way to Engage Learners
- August 29 @ 12 pm EDT - Peter Liljedahl: Building Thinking Classrooms
- September 26 @ 12 pm EDT - Stephanie Salomone: A Inquiry on Inquiry: Questions for Formative Assessment
- Video of the workshop: A Inquiry on Inquiry: Questions for Formative Assessment
- October 24 @ 3 pm EDT - Laurie Cavey: Video Cases of Student Reasoning for Inquiry-Based Learning about Functions
- November 19 @ 12 pm EST- Luiz Leyva and Kristen Amman: Equity in Inquiry-based Instructional Practices Across Gateway Mathematics Courses Related papers:
- Leyva, Luis A., et al. "Groupwork as a Site for Servingness among Undergraduate Latin* Mathematics Students."
- Leyva, Luis A., et al. "Support for all? Confronting racism and patriarchy to promote equitable learning opportunities through undergraduate calculus instruction." International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education 8.2 (2022): 339-364.
- Nathaniel Miller: A Taste of IBL
- Christine Von Renesse: Using AI and Ungrading in Teaching Mathematics with Inquiry
- Jenna P. Carpenter: Weaving Students In Versus Weeding Them Out: Research-Based Strategies that Support Equity in the IBL Classroom
- Danielle Champney, Todd A. Grundmeier: Leveraging Existing Tasks into Low Floor High Ceiling Experiences
- Stan Yoshinobu: IBL and Large Classes
- David Clark and Robert Talbert: Supporting IBL with Alternative Grading
- David Clark and Robert Talbert: IBL_resources_page