Events

Fall Speaker Series 2026

Program (and link) for the Spring 2026 Speaker Series

Wednesday, August 26 @ 2 pm EDT - Allison Henrich: Knots & Tactile Intuition
Thursday, September 17 @ 1 pm EDT - Vicky Klima: Inquiry at the Intersection: IBL as the Engine of High-Impact Practices
Friday, October 23 @ 3 pm EDT - Shelby Stanhope: Hands-on classroom activities using 3D models and visualization for multivariable calculus
Tuesday, November 17 @ 4 pm EST- Brian Winkel: I'll Be Learning Through Modeling

Materials from our 2024 Contributed Paper Session on Inquiry-based Learning

Materials from our 2023 Contributed Paper Session on Inquiry-based Learning

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
- Video of the workshop: Fostering Students’ Mathematical Creativity in Inquiry-Based Classrooms
- Other materials: Other materials for 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

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

Tuesday, April 1 @ 3 pm EST- Angie Hodge-Zickerman: TACTivities: An Embodied Way to Engage Learners

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