Math Conference 2023: 'Mathematics for the School of Tomorrow'
The Technical University of Braunschweig is hosting a mathematics conference on September 25th, 2023, under the theme 'Mathematics for the School of Tomorrow'. The full-day event, organized by the Lower Saxony Learning Center (NLC) and the Competence Center for Teacher Training (KLBS), aims to provide practical ideas and presentations for future-oriented mathematics teaching.
The conference will begin with a keynote speech by Professor Matthias Ludwig on 'Doing mathematics outdoors'. He will present ways to integrate 'out-of-classroom' experiences into daily school life. Later, Professor Hans-Stefan Siller will give the second keynote speech on 'Mathematics for tomorrow: Connecting modeling, AI, and sustainability in the classroom', focusing on helping students deal with current and real problems and fostering future-oriented thinking.
Various practical workshops will provide impulses on the topics of the keynote speeches. These workshops will focus on supporting teachers to integrate the meaningful use of artificial intelligence (AI) and education for sustainable development (BNE) into mathematics teaching. The goal is to foster students' subject competence, personality development, and social responsibility through practice-oriented lectures and workshops. The German ISTRON group, committed to reality-based mathematics teaching, is supporting the conference. Professor Katrin Vorhölter, Managing Director of the Institute for Didactics of Mathematics and Elementary Mathematics, and spokesperson for the ISTRON group, emphasizes the need for innovative didactics integrating technology and sustainability in mathematics teaching.
The conference, held at Campus Nord of the Technical University of Braunschweig, will address how to use Artificial Intelligence in mathematics classrooms and how mathematics can help students develop their personalities and understand sustainable development challenges. It aims to equip teachers with practical ideas and concepts to make mathematics teaching more engaging, relevant, and future-oriented.
