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Two examples of ungrading in higher education from the United States and from Germany
Christine von Renesse, Sven A. Wegner
In this paper the authors discuss their experiences with ungrading at a small public university in the U.S. as well as a large public university in Germany. The courses described a…
Engaging students in conjecturing through homework in Real Analysis and Differential Equations
Thomas Pawlaschyk, Sven-Ake Wegner
In this note we report on an implementation of discovery-oriented problems in courses on Real Analysis and Differential Equations. We explain a type of task-design that gives stude…
An outlook on self-assessment of homework assignments in higher mathematics education
Sarah Beumann, Sven-Ake Wegner
We discuss first experiences with a new variant of self-assessment in higher mathematics education. In our setting, the students of the course have to mark a part of their homework…
A workshop for high school students on naive set theory
Sven-Ake Wegner
In this article we present the prototype of a workshop on naive set theory designed for high school students in or around the seventh year of primary education. Our concept is base…
An open day in the metric space
Sven-Ake Wegner, Katrin Rolka
We report on a workshop for grade eleven high school students, which took place in the framework of a university open day. During the workshop the participants first discovered the…
A short introduction to Gottlob Frege's Begriffsschrift
Sven-Ake Wegner
In his 1879 paper on the Begriffsschrift, Gottlob Frege introduced a notation to formalize mathematical arguments. In this note we explain Frege's notation by using the nowadays co…