The resources and links below include materials developed through the University of Michigan IBL Center, and to provide other sources of information about IBL and its use in teaching undergraduate mathematics. Among the links we include information on the history of active learning that refers in particular to the work of R. L. Moore, a controversial mathematician who held sexist and racist views. We categorically reject Moore’s discriminatory views, and believe that acknowledging history is essential to understand who we are and make progress towards a more inclusive discipline. The Michigan IBL Center itself is fully dedicated to the education and inclusion of everyone independent of their gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religious or political views, or physical abilities.
Course Materials
- IBL Math course materials are available for download on Dropbox to instructors at other institutions. Please contact Stephen DeBacker for permissions.
Links
- AMS Article on Inquiry Based Learning by Hanna Bennett
- Other IBL centers:
- PNAS Article on Active Learning and Student Performance
- PNAS Article on Measuring Active Learning
- Diversity and IBL:
- Haberler, Z., & Laursen, S. (2016). Inquiry-based learning in mathematics: Negotiating the definition of a growing pedagogy. In Fukawa-Connelly, T., Engelke Infante, N., Wawro, M., & Brown, S. (eds.), Proceedings of Nineteenth Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (pp. 821-827). Pittsburgh, PA, February 25-27. http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/RUME19v3.pdf
- A collection of articles on diversity and IBL: https://www.colorado.edu/eer/research/IBLcommunity.html
- Promoting Diversity and Respect in the Classroom | Blog on math blogs https://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2015/08/17/promoting-diversity-and-respect-in-the-classroom/
- David Kung, Empowering Who? The Challenge of Diversifying the Mathematical Community – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V03scHu_OJE
- IBL Workshops
- The IBL Blog
- Michigan Math in Action
- Educational Advancement Foundation
- The R. L. Moore Legacy Project
- AIBL: The Academy of Inquiry Based Learning
- Project NExT
- Discovery Learning Project
- UTeach
- Journal of Inquiry Based Learning in Mathematics
- Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
Books
- 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions, Margaret Schwan Smith and Mary Kay Stein
- How not to be wrong Jordan Ellenberg
- One, two, skip a few… ninety-nine, one hundred Inquiry Based Enumerative Combinatorics,Kyle Petersen
- Chapter Zero, Carol Schumacher
- Number Theory Through Inquiry, Marshall, Odell, Starbird
- The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, Burger, Starbird
- The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking, Burger, Starbird
- Essentials of Mathematics: Introduction to Theory, Proof, and the
- Professional Culture, Hale
- First Year Calculus as Taught by R. L. Moore: An Inquiry-Based
Learning Approach, Clem Falbo - The Moore Method: A Pathway to Learner-Centered Instruction Coppin, Mahavier, May, Parker
- Making the Connection: Research and Teaching in Undergraduate
- Mathematics Education Carlson, Rassmussen
