Inspiration4Learning

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Learning and inspiration in mathematics education

Improve mathematics education with continuing education in mathematics

Hopefully, every teacher feels the need to inspire their students. This is not always possible. It is not always easy to give students the space to explore topics that are personally meaningful to them. Finding a balance between what is considered socially important and what students find personally meaningful is one of the problems that teachers who want to create inspiring education struggle with. Some aspects that you can work on as a teacher are:

Invest in the classroom culture
Create an environment in which children want to and can learn and in which they can develop knowledge themselves.
Create an environment in which children are challenged to the limits of their abilities.
Put the thinking on the students.
Try to instill a passion for the world and draw inspiration from the whole world.

What actually constitutes good school mathematics?

When most people think of math, they think of doing rows of sums and memorizing incomprehensible rules. That is a type of school math that has little to do with real math. School math today is therefore different from school math in 1950. Mathematics is much more about asking the right questions, devising an approach to solve a problem, or modeling a situation.

What do we do? What do we offer?

Inspiration4Learning is a math consulting firm that supports schools and teachers in providing excellent math education. We support schools and school teams in the Netherlands in developing excellent and inspiring math education. We also support various projects abroad.

Send us an email.