Calculating Foundation
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| legal form | Foundation, endowment |
| founding | October 2009 |
| founder | Comdirect Bank , Stuttgart Stock Exchange |
| Seat | Hamburg |
| Office | Quickborn |
| purpose | Promotion of education, science and research in the fields of arithmetic and mathematics. |
| people | Frauke Hegemann (CEO), Claudia Abjörnson (Managing Director) |
| Website | stiftungrechner.de |
The Rechnen Foundation was established in 2009 as a foundation under civil law with legal capacity, based in Hamburg . The founding donors are the Comdirect Bank and Börse Stuttgart .
Goals and purpose
The non-profit foundation is active as a sponsor as well as operationally and sees itself as a platform for a bundled and joint educational commitment of companies and organizations. Her concern is the improvement of arithmetic skills in children, adolescents and adults as well as teaching the joy of arithmetic . Through her support measures in education , science and research , she wants to strengthen arithmetic skills in society, to motivate to active engagement with mathematical tasks and thus to create the necessary basis for successful private household management and professional qualifications. She realizes her own measures and communication campaigns around arithmetic and supports projects of other arithmetic sponsors conceptually and financially. Companies and organizations as well as private individuals can get involved under the umbrella of the foundation.
Partners and Initiatives
In order to improve mathematical competence in Germany, the foundation is developing numerous programs and initiatives with its partners. In addition to the founding founders Comdirect Bank and Stuttgart Stock Exchange, partners of the Rechnen Foundation include the Klaus Tschira Foundation and other organizations, companies and foundations as well as scientists from various universities in Germany (including FU Berlin, Goethe University Frankfurt, Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster).
The representative basic study “Rechnen in Deutschland”, which was carried out by the social research institute forsa in the summer of 2009, attracted attention in the world of education. Numerous media reported and commented on the results. The study investigates the question of why mathematics education is so badly placed in Germany. She examines u. a. the attitude of Germans to arithmetic and mathematics , the promotion of mathematical education at home and the importance that the population attaches to arithmetic skills.
In May 2013 the representative study “Citizens' Competence in Computing” was published. On the test bench: the computing skills of Germans in everyday life. 1,027 people between the ages of 18 and 65 took a test, the 27 tasks of which represented mathematical questions from everyday life and mostly did not exceed the level of the 8th grade. The result: Germans do not do well when dealing with mathematical questions in everyday life. Many cannot apply what they have learned in math lessons in everyday life and thus cannot use them. Graphics and consumer information are not understood; too much text creates confusion or denial. Too many Germans lack spatial imagination and the ability to assess the plausibility of results (from the press release of the Rechnen Foundation). The study “Citizens' Computing Competence” was carried out in cooperation with the social research institute forsa as well as the University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Saarland. The media partner and first publisher of the study results was “DIE ZEIT”.
Programs and initiatives (selection)
- "Mathe.Forscher": The pedagogical basis for the Mathe.Forscher program is the approach of discovery, research and project-like learning. As math.Researchers, children and young people explore mathematical phenomena in their everyday life together with their teachers. The pupils develop their own research questions and look for answers inside and outside the school. Program in the Rhine-Neckar, Heilbronn-Franken and North regions for primary and secondary levels I and II.
- "Mathe4Job": The mathe4job.de platform informs schoolchildren about apprenticeships and those interested in master craftsman courses, and in particular gives them the opportunity to test their strengths and weaknesses in the area of basic mathematical knowledge. There are currently almost 50 apprenticeships and master craftsmen's professions with a description (source of content: employment agency) and a math test.
- "Mathe.Entdecker": With Mathe.Entdecker, places and objects become lively math tasks that can be solved on site using a smartphone app. There are already Math.Explorer paths in Kappeln, Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, around the Stuttgart Stock Exchange and in Schwäbisch Gmünd.
Bodies
The committees form the board of directors , the board of trustees and the advisory board .
The board of directors manages the business of the foundation and represents it externally. Frauke Hegemann (chairwoman), Annette Siragusano (deputy chairwoman), Claudia Abjörnson (executive director) and Heike Schmitz (member of the board) belong to the foundation's board of directors.
The Board of Trustees makes the fundamental decisions of the Rechnen Foundation. It advises, supports and monitors the management board in its management. The members of the board of trustees are Oliver Hans ( chairman ), Matthias Hach (deputy chairman), Christoph Lammersdorf, Dietmar von Blücher and Martin Stein.
The task of the advisory board is to provide scientific, didactic and other advice to the foundation board. The aim of the mutual exchange and networking is to strengthen mathematical education in Germany. The Advisory Board of the Rechnen Foundation consists of: Christiane Benz (Karlsruhe University of Education), Albrecht Beutelspacher (Mathematikum Gießen), Björn Christensen (Kiel University of Applied Sciences), Matthias Gercken (State Seminar for Didactics and Teacher Training Karlsruhe), Gilbert Greefrath (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster ), Matthias Heidenreich (grammar school teacher and specialist mathematics advisor at the Karlsruhe Regional Council), Christian Hesse (University of Stuttgart), Rudolf Kellermann (journalist), Martin Kramer (Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg), Silke Ladel (University of Saarland), Matthias Ludwig (Goethe -Universität Frankfurt), Brigitte Lutz-Westphal (Free University Berlin), Dr. Dr Gert Mittring (world champion in mental arithmetic), Dr. Thomas Tillmann (strategy consultant).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Committees. In: stiftungrechner.de. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Article in the Hamburger Abendblatt
- ↑ Article in Foundation & Sponsoring ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Result report of the study “Computing in Germany” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Article at Stern.de
- ↑ Article at Focus.de
