Proof to Practice: a day of mathematics education research in calculus and linear algebra
Location: UPark Hotel, University of Twente campus
Date: November 11, 2025
Goal
FERMAT, the UT mathematics education research group, and the 4TU.AMI 'Mathematics Education Research Project' SRI invite you to attend a symposium on the teaching and learning of linear algebra and calculus. This symposium aims to support a network of excellence in mathematics education research and to 'close the gap' between published educational scholarship and university educational practice.
Scholars from Dutch and international institutions will present recent educational scholarship on calculus (single and multivariable) and linear algebra. As well as presenting the work of their own research groups, there will also be synopses of the global state of play in the mathematics education literature on these topics.
The symposium is expected to be of interest to the mathematics education research community in and nearby the Netherlands as well as to teachers of calculus and linear algebra who are interested in such scholarship yet are not educational researchers themselves.
Program
A tentative program can be found below.
Click here for abstracts of the talks.
- 09:30 - 09:50 - Arrival and registration
- 09:50 - 10:00 - Welcome
- 10:00 - 10:30 - Thomais Karavi (TU Eindhoven)
'Rigour as a Collective Practice: Designing Tutorials
to Support Belonging in University Mathematics' - 10:30 - 11:00 - Martina Vittorietti (TU Delft)
'Exploring Linear Algebra’s Student Behavioral Engagement Trajectories
in Online Learning Platforms' - 11:00 - 11:20 - Coffee break
- 11:20 - 12:00 - Sepideh Stewart (University of Oklahoma)
'Balancing Abstract and Applied Linear Algebra:
Pedagogical Challenges and Opportunities' - 12:00 - 12:30 - Anthony Cronin (University College Dublin)
'Comparative Judgement as a means to authentic student engagement
with proof writing in a specialist linear algebra course' - 12:30 - 13:45 - Lunch
- 13:45 - 14:15 - Gilbert Greefrath (University of Münster)
'Developing basic mental models of derivative and integral' - 14:15 - 14:45 - Rogier Bos (Utrecht University)
'TBA' - 14:45 - 15:05 - Coffee
- 15:05 - 15:35 - Tracy Craig (UT)
'Challenges in double integral construction
and vector calculus problem solving' - 15:35 - 16:30 - Martijn Boussé (Maastricht University)
Workshop: 'Linear Algebra Tile Game: A Game-Based Learning Activity
for Deepening Linear Algebra Knowledge' - 16:30 - Closing & drinks
More information
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