Mathematics Learning Lab Launch, January 28 2026

At the launch of the Mathematics Learning Lab at the STEM Center for Educational Research FNUG on Wednesday you will have the opportunity to meet the founders of the lab and be introduced to this new and exciting research initiative. The event will feature presentations on translating research articles into teaching activities, on using mathematical models to understand the world, and on mathematics in interdisciplinary contexts.

The STEM Education Research Center FNUG invites you to the launch of the Mathematics Learning Lab on Wednesday, 28 January, from 10:00 to16:00.

The Mathematics Learning Lab is a new research laboratory dedicated to exploring mathematics education in close interaction with other disciplinary fields, where mathematics contributes to holistic learning across the education system – from early childhood education to university level.

The vision of the lab is to develop new approaches to mathematics pedagogical and learning environments that both strengthen subject-specific competencies and invite more holistic, creative, and sensory ways of experiencing and learning mathematics. The lab connects research-based knowledge with practice through experimental teaching formats that foster curiosity, understanding, and the experience of mathematics as meaningful and relevant.

The day will feature three presentations, followed by a guided tour through FNUG’s learning research environment in mathematics across different educational levels.
The event will be held in English.

PROGRAM

10:00-10:15	Welcome og introduction Dorte Moeskær Larsen, Associate Professor and Head of the Mathematics Learning Lab
10:15-11:00	From computer science research to lower secondary mathematics Peter Stenkilde, Research Assistant KU, IND presents examples of teaching materials developed on the basis of research articles on algorithmic bias and discusses the process of translating research articles into teaching sequences targeted at lower secondary education. The approach demonstrates how mathematics is essential for understanding the technologies that surround us and enables young people to ask critical questions about these technologies.
11:00-11:15	Break
11:15-12.00	Connecting Place and STEM: Using Mathematical Models to Understand the World Maria Møller, lektor, UCN, presents place-based education as a world-oriented approach in which learners interact with the place they are situated in. Mathematics becomes a lens for understanding and interpreting places through modelling. This presentation introduces four didactic principles for integrating mathematical modelling into place-based STEM education, with perspectives extending to the natural sciences.
12:00-12:45	Lunch Break
12:45-13:25	Mathematics in interdisciplinary contexts across educational levels? Dorte Moeskær Larsen, Associate Professor, SDU presents the role of mathematics in early childhood education, as well as the challenges and potentials of mathematics within STEM in compulsory schooling and upper secondary education.
13:25- 13:35	Break
13:35-14:00	Questions, discussion, and wrap-up
14:00-16:00	Launch of the Mathematics Learning Lab – the FNUG way. A guided tour of FNUG’s learning research environment in mathematics across different educational levels.