Projects

Innovative Teaching Education in Mathematics (iTEM) – Improving teaching, learning, and understanding in 1st-year mathematics...

Leading team: Dr. Ronnie Karsenty WIS representative in iTEM group of directors Dr. Alon Pinto Dr. Jason Cooper Prof. Boris Koichu

Mathematics teachers personalize activities for their students, and share them with other teachers in the PeTeL-Math community.   PeTeL-Math...

Leading team: Dr. Ruth Reiz project coordinator Prof. Boris Koichu

Municipal professional learning communities for the professional development of heads of mathematics departments in middle school...

Leading team: Dr. Jason Cooper Project coordinator (2017-2020) Dr. Mirela Widder Project coordinator (2020-2021) Prof. Boris Koichu

Professional Learning Communities work on the enactment of problem solving in middle school classes, with the goal of increasing...

Leading team: Dr. Jason Cooper project coordinator Yonah Amir Aamer Badarneh Menucha Farber Dr. Orly Gottlib Prof. Boris Koichu

Teacher-Researcher Alliance for Investigating Learning (TRAIL): Teacher-researcher co-learning partnerships, including communities...

Leading team: Dr. Jason Cooper Dr. Mirela Widder Dr. Alon Pinto Prof. Boris Koichu

Lenses on the Improvement of Teaching is a unique professional development (PD) program, designed especially for teachers of the...

Leading team: Dr. Ronnie Karsenty Tzila Yarhi Prof. Abraham Arcavi

School-based professional learning communities for mathematics teachers that combine lesson study with the VIDEO-LM lenses.     Math-VALUE...

Leading team: Prof. Abraham Arcavi Dr. Ronnie Karsenty

A comprehensive junior-high school mathematics curriculum program that emphasizes problem solving, thinking, and reasoning for...

Leading team: Prof. Ruhama Even

The MesiMatica project centers on developing research-, theory- and practice-based formative assessment materials that attend...

Leading team: Prof. Ruhama Even

This study analyzes the opportunities for mathematics learning offered to students in seventh grade math textbooks.     Mathematics...

Leading team: Prof. Ruhama Even

Study of the contribution and relevance of academic mathematics studies to teaching secondary school mathematics, focusing on...

Leading team: Prof. Ruhama Even

Development of teaching units for 9th grade that focus on solving complex problems in the context of the real world, with an emphasis...

Leading team: Prof. Ruhama Even

The ZEN-Math project (Zooming into Environments for Nurturing Mathematics) seeks to address the evident need in the field for...

Leading team: Dr. Alon Pinto Dr. Ronnie Karsenty Dr. Adi Eraki

Mathematicians and practicing math teachers watch together videotaped lessons and inquire into the potential affordances of tertiary...

Leading team: Dr. Alon Pinto Myriam Goor Ester Gruenhut Michael Gorodin

This project focuses on the development and investigation of AI-based teaching simulations designed to support responsive mathematics...

Leading team: Dr. Gil Schwarts Dr. Reut Parasha Shaked Czaczkes Michal Elran