Mathematics Learning Lab Launch den 28. januar 2026

Mathematics Learning Lab Launch, January 28, 2026

At the launch of the Mathematics Learning Lab at the STEM Education Research Center FNUG on Wednesday, January 28, 2026. Meet the founders of the lab and receive an introduction to this new exciting research initiative.

The launc of the Mathematics Learning Lab will feature presentations on transforming research articles into teaching sequences, using mathematical models to understand the world, and exploring mathematics in interdisciplinary contexts.

STEM Education Research Center FNUG invites you to the launch of the Mathematics Learning Lab on Wednesday, January 28, from 10 AM to 4 PM.

The Mathematics Learning Lab is a new research laboratory where we explore mathematics education in close interaction with other subject areas, and where mathematics contributes to holistic learning across the entire educational system—from early childhood education to university.

The vision is to develop new approaches to mathematics education and learning environments that strengthen disciplinary knowledge while also inviting more holistic, creative, and sensory ways of experiencing and learning mathematics. The laboratory connects research-based knowledge with practice through experimental teaching formats that foster curiosity, understanding, and a sense of mathematics as meaningful and relevant.

The day includes three presentations, followed by a guided tour of FNUG’s mathematics education research environment across educational levels.

PROGRAM

10:00-10:15	Welcome and Introduction Dorte Moeskær Larsen, Associate Professor and Head of Mathematics Learning Lab
10:15-11:00	From computer science research to lower secondary mathematics Peter Stenkilde, Scientific Assistant, IND, University of Copenhagen, presents examples of teaching materials developed from research articles about algorithmic bias, and he tells about the process of translating research articles into teaching sequences aimed at lower secondary school. Our approach shows how mathematics is vital for understanding the technologies that surround us, and enables young students to ask critical questions about the technologies.
11:00-11:15	Break
11:15-12.00	Connecting Place and STEM: Using Mathematical Models to Understand the World Maria Møller, Associate Professor, University College of Northern Denmark, tells about how place-based teaching offers an opportunity for a more world-oriented approach, where students interact with the location they are in. Mathematics becomes a lens for understanding and interpreting these places through modelling. This talk introduces four didactical principles for integrating mathematical modelling into place-based STEM teaching, with extensions to science.
12:00-12:45	Lunch Break
12:45-13:25	Mathematics in interdisciplinary contexts across educational levels? Dorte Moeskær Larsen, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark, talks about the role of mathematics in early childhood education, and the challenges and potentials of mathematics in STEM in primary and secondary school
13:25- 13:35	Break
13:35-14:00	Questions, discussions and summing up
14:00-16:00	Launch of the Mathematics Learning Lab – The FNUG-way A guided visit through FNUG’s mathematics education research environments across different educational levels.