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Stephanie Schuler is Professor of Didactics of Mathematics in Primary Education atRPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau(RPTU).

Her research areas include:

• Cognitively activating and adaptive learning support in mathematical play situations(MathAptiv)
• Mathematics learning in the transition from kindergarten to elementary school(MaReKS)
• Development, testing and evaluation of (digital) learning environments in elementary school mathematics lessons(PriMa Lernwerkstatt)
• Use of arithmetic visual aids in the first year of school(LEA)
• Professional mathematical competence of (prospective) specialists and teachers
• Skills acquisition and skills measurement for the key idea of quantities and measurement

Vita

Exams

Digital Information Sessions

• Information Session for the M5b Oral Exam: May 27, 2026, 6:00–6:45 p.m.
• Information Session for the M8 Oral Exam: May 27, 2026, 6:45–7:30 p.m.

All information sessions will take place online in the BBB room

Exam Dates for M5b

• Exam Dates for Module M5b – July, Summer Semester 2026

Exam Dates for M8

• Exam Dates_Module M8_July_Summer Semester 2026

M3 Exam Calculator Policy

Calculators may be used for the M3 exam. Only approved models are permitted. Please refer to the document “Calculator Policy” by the Schuler Working Group for more information.

• Information event BA/MA theses: 06.05.2026 18.15-19.15 (OLAT course consultation hour Schuler, BBB) - the start of the event may be postponed (approx. 18.45) due to appointments that cannot be postponed, please try to log in from 18.15 onwards
  • Bachelor's theses with a didactic perspective in the teaching degree program of variant b (focus: primary and special needs school), Bachelor's theses will be assigned for winter semester 2026/27 after attending the mandatory information event (see above)
  • Master's theses with a subject-didactic perspective in the degree program Primary School Education, Master's theses are awarded in conjunction with the Master's seminar "8.3.: Selected Topics in Mathematics Didactics" (start of the Master's thesis winter semester 2026/27). The seminar is only attended by students who are newly enrolled in the Master's program from winter semester 2022/23.
    
• Main topics
  • Prior knowledge of students in different school years on various key ideas (number and operation, space and shape, sizes and measurement, patterns and structures) (Bachelor's theses)
  • Prior knowledge of pupils in different school years on the presentation and reading of tables, diagrams and other discontinuous texts (Bachelor's theses)
  • Testing and evaluation of learning environments for lengths, monetary values, time, weights, areas and volumes (Master's theses only)
  • Modeling skills of third and fourth graders using the example of can-do tasks (Master's theses only)
  • Development, testing and evaluation of learning environments for geometric concept formation and spatial imagination (Master's theses only)
  • Development, testing and evaluation of digital learning environments for the mathematics learning workshop on various key ideas (space and shape, sizes and measurement, problem solving) (Bachelor's and Master's theses)
  • Diagnosis and support of children with difficulties in learning arithmetic (Master's theses only)
  • Learning opportunities for children interested in mathematics (Master's theses only)
  • Other topics by arrangement

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