FIUS

Realistic Mathematics Education Conference, October 12 - 14, 2009

Conference program

Handouts of the conference

The mission of FI-US is to establish a comprehensive network of collaborating researchers, teachers and developers. The activities of FI-US focus on:

  • Supporting development of teachers' classroom assessment practices.
  • Design of comparative achievement studies.
  • Developing curricula at several levels of detail, from teaching, learning and assessment trajectories to classroom materials for students, teachers and parents.
  • Building leadership capacity in school districts through professional communities.
  • Collaboration in education (e.g. supervision PhD-students).

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    Photo: The tower of the Old Main building on University of Colorado's campus in front of the Flatirons in Boulder. 

    History

    In 2003 the Freudenthal Institute - USA (FI-US) was established as a result of the collaboration that had existed for years already between the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA. Since 2005, FI-US has relocated to the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

FISME

The Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (FIsme) aims to improve education in the fields of arithmetic, mathematics, and the sciences, with a focus on primary, secondary and vocational education. The Institute contributes towards this aim through research, teaching, curriculum development and services

CU Boulder

Mission statement: The Boulder campus of the university of Colorado shall be a comprehensive graduate research university with selective admissions standards, and shall offer a comprehensive array of undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degree programs.

School of Education

The mission of the School of Education includes several, interconnected elements. Faculty conduct research to improve educational policies and classroom practice, prepare researchers at the doctoral level, educate teachers at the undergraduate and masterís levels in high quality programs, and provide exceptional services to our partner school districts and Colorado.