Welcome to IMPACT: Inquiry Maths Pedagogy in Action

This website aims to share ideas, resources, tips and personal experiences about using Guided Mathematical Inquiry for teaching mathematics in the classroom. We invite all teachers, school leaders, teacher learning professionals, and researchers interested in this approach, to build and become part of this inquiry culture.
Linked up: What is the longest paper chain that can be made from A4 paper?
In this unit students use an A4 sheet of coloured paper to produce a paper chain (Years 1-3).
Does your class have a favourite type of book?
A unit for members to download (Years 2-4). Aligned to meet the requirements of the Australian Curriculum.
Playing with positive and negative integers
​A Guided Mathematical Inquiry for the Year 6 classroom. Formative and summative opportunities available.
Downloadable classroom resources for free!
Free access to inquiry units for you to download. NEW! Search for inquiries by Year Level and content strand in the Australian Curriculum.

Interested in assessment?

Available to Members now, find out about a NEW inquiry for Year 6 exploring positive and negative integers. Formative and summative assessment is also available - aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. Also includes Our marking guide for summative assessment.

It's free to become a member!

The Member request link means you sign up to access even more resources - and it's free! Find resources for professional development, posters to download and even more inquiry units.

Getting started

  • The authors of Thinking through mathematics: Engaging students with inquiry-based learning have made some of their inquiry unit plans freely available on the Members page. These units can help you get started with mathematical inquiry in your own classroom.

  • A free downloadable copy of the 4D Guided Inquiry map is available on the Members page. To print posters of different sizes for the classroom, click on Member request to become a member at no cost to you and you will be able to download a range of posters of different sizes.​
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  • See mathematical inquiry in action! On the Members page you are able to view videos illustrating teaching and learning in each phase of mathematical inquiry; Discover, Devise, Develop, Defend. there is also a video on Thinking Mathematically (AITSL Illustration of Practice, Apr 17, 2016) which was produced as part of this series.
  • Visit the Research page to read about mathematical inquiry in action. For instance, Let's look at bubblegum and oranges illustrates establishing norms in one teacher's years 5-6 classroom, April Frizzle, over 2 different inquiries.

Navigating your way around the site...

Free resources
View and download free resources from the Free Resources page.
Select Member request to gain access to the free Members section for even more. 
Research
The Research page contains the IMPACT blog. Stories that are posted summarise papers published by the authors of this site and provide detail about what happens in the different phases of an inquiry. Descriptions of alignment of several inquiry units with the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics is also available in the IMPACT blog. You can view our Links to other sites that support the inquiry philosophy in mathematics. Further reading includes the complete papers which have been summarised on our Blog.
IMPACT
See where the authors of mathsinquiry.com have also made an IMPACT.  Links to our reSolve Inquiries showcase the 10 inquiry units designed by this team for the special topic 'Mathematical Inquiry into Authentic Problems.'
about
Find out about the project leaders - the researchers responsible for this site: Associate Professor Katie Makar,
Associate Professor Jill Fielding-Wells and Dr Kym Fry. There is an opportunity to Contact the authors of the site via email.

Give students experiences that professionals run into: having to wrestle with problems, wondering things and negotiating ideas.

Makar, 2017 STEM Teacher Symposium