Research projects

• since 2009: building-up of an Institute for Cognitive Mathematics, Shanghai, intercultural comparative studies.
• 2008-2011: DfD [website in German]: Denkformen des formalen Denkens (forms of thinking in the field of formal thinking) – An empirical study addressing specific cognitions of first-year university students in the subject of mathematics. Joint project with Prof. Dr. Sebastian Walcher in the context of the Excellence Initiative at the RWTH Aachen University.
• seit 2001: early mathematical education [website in German]. Funding: varied foundations and companies (details [website in German]).
• 1998-2001: Individual differences in the cognition of mathematical formation of concepts (KMB [website in German]). Financially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation).
• 1997-2001: MUMAS [website in German] – Improvement of mathematics education by means of a MUltimedia-based Mathematics education Analysing System - joint project with Prof. Dr. Elmar Cohors-Fresenborg [website in German]. Financing: Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony / HSP III.
• 2000-2001: Eyetracking experiments concerning functional/predicative differences in thinking - joint project with Dr. Franz Mechsner, Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich.
• 1997-2000: The difference between functional and predicative thinking during EEG measurement - joint project with Prof. Dr. Jan Born, University of Luebeck. (short info [website in German])
• 1995-1997: Cognitive aspects of business reengineering.
• 1989-1993: Intercultural comparative study with Chinese children on the basic algorithmic concepts in predicative and functional processes of concept formation using examples of the foundation of algorithmization and movement control – funded by the Ministry of Science of Lower Saxony.
• 1987-1990: Study on the processes of mathematical thinking of girls as a contribution to the promotion of girls in the field of modern technologies - funded by the Emsland district.
• 1986-1990: Effects of different forms of representing algorithmic concepts and the building up of mental models – funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
• 1984-1989: Intercultural comparative study on algorithmic thinking of Indonesian children – funded by Misereor.
• 1985-1986: Basic curricular concept for teaching mathematics in secondary schools (school years 5-10) for the creation of models fostering an understanding of computers on the basis of action-orientated formations of concepts - expert's report on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Lower Saxony.
• 1984-1987: Case-study on mathematical thinking with hearing-impaired children under special consideration of action-orientated formations of concepts. – Research assignment within the BLK-Project on "Algorithmic Thinking in Mathematics Education of Children with Hearing Impediments".

Preschool and Erstrechnen (basic arithmetic) projects

• 2009-2011: pre- and primary school project “Mathe-Magie” (magical mathematics). Funding: Stiftung Stahlwerk Georgsmarienhütte.
• 2008-2009: Vorschul-Mathematik (preschool mathematics). Funding: Stiftung der Sparkassen im Landkreis Osnabrück (foundation of the Sparkassen in the administrative district of Osnabrück).
• 2006-2009: KogMaL-KG: [website in German]: “Kognitionsorientiertes Mathematik-Lehren" (teaching mathematics, cognition-oriented) in nursery and primary school. Funding: Stiftung Stahlwerk Georgsmarienhütte.

School projects

• 2008: MiM: [website in German] math month in the year of mathematics. "A challenge for mathematical thinking"
• since 12/2000: ZMO: [website in German] Math Olympics for Infants.
• school year 97/98: Kontakt in die Welt als Patenkind im Internet. (“Contact into the world as a godchild in the internet”) [website in German]: A project of "Schulen ans Netz" [website in German], carried out in the Elisabethgrundschule (a primary school) in Osnabrück.
• school year 97/98: MARS: [website partly in German, Greek and Chinese] online magazine of the following primary schools: Elisabethschule in Osnabrück, Primary School of Megaplatanos in Greece and primary school Shi Da Fu Xiao in Shanghai. Funding: Schulen ans Netz [website in German] & magazine Stern.
• 2006-2007: CREAMS [website in German]: Creative Mathematics at School. Shanghai Normal University & Shanghai Teacher Training Base.

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