Resources for IBL Teaching

Materials

Journal of Inquiry-Based Learning in Mathematics

JIBLM is a good source for IBL course notes for college courses. You can find complete scripts of questions for a variety of topics, with helpful instructor’s guides. [Trade Secret: the instructor’s guides distill wisdom from many years of teaching! There is a lot to learn about IBL teaching hiding in these notes.]

Discovering the Art of Mathematics

This is an NSF-funded project to develop variants of Mathematics for the Liberal Arts courses in an IBL style. There are 11 different versions of those courses available here (for free!), and lots of information and help for new users of IBL techniques.

Mentoring and Workshops

The Academy of Inquiry Based Learning is an organization for connecting IBL practitioners. AIBL runs workshops every summer, and can match you with a mentor.

Blogs

These are blog sites with interesting content about teaching college Mathematics, many of which address ideas of IBL teaching in direct ways.

• The IBL blog.
• The DAoM blog.
• Teaching Tidbits, an MAA blog focused on teaching issues.
• Launchings, former MAA president David Bressoud’s blog.
• Devlin’s Angle by Keith Devlin.
• A Novice IBL Blog run by a collection of faculty as they learn to teach with IBL and reflect on their work.
• On Teaching and Learning Mathematics, an AMS blog featuring writing about teaching and math education research.
• inclusion/exclusion, an AMS blog focused on diversity and equity issues in the profession and in the classroom.

Other Organizations of Note

The Mathematical Association of America

Our parent organization.

The Initiative for Mathematics Learning by Inquiry

A public non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting the IBL community.

The Educational Advancement Foundation

A private philanthropic foundation with a long history of supporting the IBL community.