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On February 19 and 20, 2026, the 5th Didactics Workshop on “Stochastics in Secondary Education – Data, Probability, and (Un)certainty” will take place in Karlsruhe. Karin Binder will also give a presentation at the workshop.

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The research article "Online self-assessments and student engagement: a causal analysis in university mathematics" by authors Stefan Büchele, Lisa Feiste, Raphael Müller und Mirko Schürmann is published in the journal Education and Information Technologies. 

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The GDM conference for young researchers will take place from September 15 to 19, 2025: https://www.ed.math.lmu.de/events/gdmnwk2025/ Karin Binder and Leon Wiemann are involved in organizing this conference. Birte Reich, Luca Jotzo, and Johannes Hellmund will be attending the conference.

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The article "Zwischen Verständlichkeit und Manipulation - Verantwortungsvolle Präsentation statistischer Befunde in der Wissenschaft" by Karin Binder was published in the journal Forschung & Lehre.

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On September 1, 2025, Luca Jotzo will start as a research assistant in our working group Binder. We would like to welcome him and look forward to working with him!

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To ease the transition from school mathematics to the content at university, the institute of mathematics of the Paderborn University offers bridge courses from September 8th to October 1st. One of these is the P1-course held by Irene Garnelo and aimed at students of mathematics-related subjects. In particular we invite all students of chemistry, chemical engineering, computer science in economics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering,…

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The workshop, organized by the khdm (the center for research in mathematics in higher education), will take place from August 7th to 8th in Schwäbisch Gmünd.Our working group will participate in the workshop with the following contributions: Raphael Müller and Birte Reich: Digital media in diverse settings within higher education (focus: STACKJohannes Hellmund: Financial literacy im mathematics educationIrene Garnelo: Dealing with student…

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The IASE Satellite Conference will take place in Münster from September 30 to October 2: https://www.uni-muenster.de/GIMB/veranstaltungen/iase/home.html Our working group will participate in the conference with the following contributions: Rößner, Michael; Büchter, Theresa, and Steib, Nicole: How the level of inference in visualizations influences participants’ performance in Bayesian reasoningBüchter, Theresa; Binder, Karin, and Eichler,…

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