Abstrakt
The multicultural nature of society influences education in many countries. Teachers are usually not sufficiently prepared to deal with a multicultural classroom context.
Particularly mathematics teachers feel the need for materials supporting them in teaching in multicultural classrooms. Also their pupils with a migrant background often 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 mathematics teaching materials for migrants, but these were rather closed materials, not concepts and strategies to be further developed by teachers.
A Czech-Austrian project team worked on designing conceptions for teaching units, based on the analysis of various research studies, examples of concrete teaching units based on these conceptions, and guidelines on how to use them. These materials will give mathematics teachers a tool that allows them to create their own teaching units fitting their own (heterogeneous as well as homogeneous) classroom needs.