Abstrakt
The multicultural nature of society influences schools in many countries. Teachers are usually not sufficiently prepared to deal with a multicultural classroom context.
Particularly elementary mathematics teachers feel the need for materials supporting them in teaching in multicultural classrooms. Also their pupils with a migrant background encounter more difficulties than their native classmates in acquiring basic mathematical skills.
Many projects have created mathematics teaching materials in different settings, though these did not take multicultural classrooms into consideration. A very few have created concrete teaching materials for migrants, but these were rather closed teaching materials, not concepts and strategies to be further developed by teachers.
A Czech-Austrian project team is currently designing concepts for teaching units, based on the analysis of various research studies, examples of concrete teaching units based on these concepts, and guidelines on how to use these concepts. This will give mathematics teachers a tool that allows them to create their own teaching units fitting their own classroom needs.
The poster will present the results from the literature analysis, examples of teaching units, and drafts of the teaching unit concepts.