Interdisciplinary Maths and Science (IMS) learning

This international, longitudinal project investigated the effectiveness of an innovative interdisciplinary learning approach in mathematics and science. Through collaborating primary schools in Australia and the United States of America (USA), it will investigate how students’ invention and transformation of representational systems can connect to support deeper reasoning and learning. We have a comprehensive website dedicated to IMS – find out more! about IMS.

Resources as teaching and learning sequences have been developed through this research. You can download and adapt these sequences. They include students’ work samples to help you anticipate student representational productions, and illustrate the learning. If you try these resources, either as sequences or discrete activities, we would love to hear from you about your experience.