Mathematics Conference
The well established «Fachkonferenz Mathematik» affords the opportunity to exchange experience and maintain the link between the School of Engineering and the advanced vocational schools or similar schools within the range of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. Awareness of the developping issues at the junction of the vocational schools and the UAS is very important to us from both perspectives. This broader perspective allows us both to provide the best possible support for our students at entry level. This continuous blending of interests from the university and the vocational schools increases our prospective students' success rates, as well as our own attractiveness, yielding a pure win-win situation for all!
2017: Saturday, 28th October
The heading of this year's meeting is «Digital Change in Maths Instruction». Nowadays, smart phones or tablets afford access to powerful mathematical environments, such as Octave, Matlab oder Python and its derivatives. Given these tools, the dividing line between end users and developers becomes more and more blurred. In order to fully exploit the possibilities lying at our fingertips, some skills in the area of algorithmic thinking should be worked into our ways of teaching maths at all levels.
The detailed programme will appear here in due course. Attending the conference is free of charge.
2016: Saturday, 29th October
- Leaflet with programme
- Thomas Heim: Einleitung
- Beat Eicke: Grundlagen der Datenanalyse anhand praktischer Beispiele
- Michael Roser: Datenanalyse im Rahmen interdisziplinärer Arbeiten (examples for Ti-nspire: visualizing mean value, measuring distance)
- Michael Roser: Workshop (supporting material for Ti-nspire)
- Thomas Heim: Ausblick auf allgemeine lineare Regression
2015: Saturday, 25th April
- Leaflet with programme
- Marcello Robbiani: «Wer lehrt, der prüft!» — Versuch einer Auslegeordnung
- Current situation in Northwestern Switzerland: AG, BL/BS, SO
- Isidor Huber: Erfahrungen mit gemeinsamen Prüfungen an Gymnasien
2013: Saturday, 26th October
- Leaflet with programme
- Benno Frei: CAS im BM-Unterricht, eine Herausforderung für die Lehrpersonen
- Michael Roser: Das Konzept der TI-Nspire Technologie mit seinen vielfältigen Einsatzmöglichkeiten
2012: Saturday, 27th October
- Leaflet with programme
- Beat Jaggi: Teaching is: Giving opportunities to the students to discover things by themselves
- Louis-Sepp Willimann: Blended Math Teaching — Erfahrungen mit der Realisierung eines Werkzeugs und dessen Einsatz im Unterricht
2011: Saturday, 29th October
- Leaflet with programme
- Erich Wyler: Rahmenlehrplan Berufsmaturität 2012, eine Entwicklung hin zu klaren Kompetenzprofilen (transparencies)
- Marcello Robbiani: BM-Datenanalyse, eine Exploration
- Thomas Heim: Workshops (introduction and summary of discussions)
- Thomas Heim: Ausblick
2010: Saturday, 30th October
- Leaflet with programme
- Peter Bonati: Komptenzen-Modell für Rahmenlehrplan Berufsmaturität 2012
- Peter Labudde: Kompetenzorientierte Prüfungen
- Thomas Heim: Workshops (introduction and summary of discussions)
- Thomas Heim: Schlusswort
2009: Saturday, 24th October
- Leaflet with programme
- Hansrudolf Schärer: Introduction
- Isidor Huber: Gemeinsames Prüfen als Alternative zu Bildungsstandards?
- Beat Wälti: Mathematik-Prüfungen und Kompetenzmodelle
- Günther Kurz: Mathematik — Hürde am Studienbeginn
- Hansrudolf Schärer: Eintrittsqualifikation und Studienmisserfolg
- Marcello Robbiani: Die künftige Berufsmaturität — offene Probleme
- Hansrudolf Schärer: Conclusion
2008: Saturday, 25th October
- Leaflet with programme
- Urs Gugger: Kompetenzmodell der GIB Thun
- Martin Schönbächler: Formulierung von Bildungsstandards
- Thomas Heim: Das Mathematikzentrum der HTNW
- John Barbezat: Outcome Kompetenzen für Mathematik
- Hansrudolf Schärer: Reform der Berufsmaturität
2007: Saturday, 27th Oktober
- Leaflet with programme
- Helmut Linneweber-Lammerskitten: Kompetenzmodelle und -profile
- Serge Imboden: Reform der Berufsmaturität