Christian Schons, M.Sc.


Office:              Marsstrasse 20-22
                          Room 267, 2nd floor

Phone:             +49 - (0)89 - 289 - 28238

Email:                christian.schons@tum.de

Office Hours:   on demand

Teaching

Winter semester 2021/2022

  • Tutorial on the didactics of mathematics for the vocational teaching profession: Algebra and Functions
  • Tutorial on the Didactics of Mathematics 1: Algebra, Numbers and Functions

Summer semester 2021

  • Tutorial on the didactics of mathematics for the vocational teaching profession: Algebra and Functions

Winter semester 2020/2021

  • Fundamentals of Mathematics Didactics for the Vocational Teaching Profession
  • Tutorial on Didactics of Mathematics 1: Algebra, Numbers and Functions
  • Seminar for the block practical course for the vocational teaching profession

Summer semester 2020

  • Übungen zur Didaktik der Mathematik für das berufliche Lehramt: Algebra und Funktionen
  • Staatsexamensvorbereitungskurs zur Algebra (Lehramt Gymnasium)

Prior Courses

  • WS 2014/15 - WS 2018/19: Leading tutorials as student assistant (e.g. preliminary course in mathematics, linear algebra I+II, analysis I+II, algebra, functional analysis) at the WWU Münster

Research

Research Interests

  • Diagnostic competence of mathematics teachers
  • Analysis of learning processes
  • Simulation-based learning
  • Effective scaffolding
  • Mathematics and Philiosophy

Projects

  • COSIMA: Fostering diagnostic competencies in simulation-based learning environments in higher education

Publications

  • Schons, C., Obersteiner, A., Reinhold, F., Fischer, F., & Reiss, K. (in revision). Fostering prospective mathematics teachers’ diagnostic competencies in simulations: The effects of scaffolding. Journal für Mathematik-Didaktik.
  • Reinhold, F., Schons, C., Scheuerer, S., Gritzmann, P., Richter-Gebert, J. & Reiss, K. (2021). Students’ coping with the self-regulatory demand of crisis-driven digitalization in university mathematics instruction: do motivational and emotional orientations make a difference? Computers in Human Behavior, 120, 106732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106732
  • Schons, C., Obersteiner, A., Fischer, F. & Reiss, K. (2020). Förderung von Diagnosekompetenzen durch Scaffolding. In H.-S. Siller, W. Weigel & J. F. Wörler (Hrsg.), Beiträge zum Mathematikunterricht 2020 (S. 1535). Münster: WTM-Verlag. http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-21544

Curriculum vitae

  • since 12/2019: Research Assistant at the Heinz Nixdorf Endowed Chair for Didactics of Mathematics, TU Munich
  • 05/2019 - 11/2019: Actuarial mathematician
  • 10/2018 - 03/2019: Research assistant, Mathematical Institute, WWU Münster
  • 10/2015 - 09/2018: M.Sc. Mathematics with minor in Psychology, WWU Münster
  • 10/2012 - 09/2015: B.Sc. Mathematics with minor in Psychology, WWU Münster