Team-Based Inquiry Learning

Open Resources and Research supporting Active Learning in Mathematics

⚠ Welcome to our new project website at TBIL.org! Pardon our progress as we work to transition our content here. Please feel free to visit our original site if you have trouble finding what you're looking for.

I feel like I naturally gained knowledge in the topic, but the structure of the course made it a lot easier to feel the gains and gain from others as well.

—Student survey response

Team-Based Learning (TBL) was first popularized for use in management and health sciences education. This highly active and structured pedagogy provides scaffolding that allows mathematics students to engage in Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) in courses as early as precalculus.

We developed Team-Based Inquiry Learning (TBIL) to combine the scaffolding of TBL with the rich inquiry of IBL. This site includes several activity books, exercise banks, research findings, and more, made available to you as free and open-source resources for your classroom.

Learn more!

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award #2011807. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

News and updates

Join us in Seattle for a TBIL Community Workshop in January 2025!

Dear TBIL Community,

All TBIL-trained community members are invited to participate in an NSF-funded TBIL Community Workshop to be held in Seattle, WA on 2025 January 7. Note that this is the day before the start of the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings, and we anticipate to hold our workshop in the conference hotel. This event is not affiliated with the JMM but we hope that many participants will be able to take advantage of the opportunity to extend their stay in Seattle and participate in the JMM as well.

For more details and to apply for funding, visit this Google form. Please apply by 2024 October 1 so we can make arrangements for this exciting event to bring together our community this January!

AY 2024-25 Opportunities for TBIL Fellows!

Dear TBIL Community,

I hope your semesters are off to a great start! We have a few opportunities I wanted to share with all of you:

  1. We are establishing a TBIL Editorial Board to oversee the TBIL Resource Library.  We are looking for 5 people to join the board, and we will provide stipends and training over the coming academic year. Please indicate your interest here by Friday, September 13.
  2. We are looking for members of our community to provide workshops at conferences (including regional meetings like an MAA sectional).  We will soon have slideshows from previous workshops available in the TBIL resource library for you to use, and can provide a $500 stipend for your time.  Please email Drew Lewis if you are interested.
  3. Save the date: we are planning a training event prior to the Joint Math Meetings in Seattle in January. Stay tuned for details as we finalize plans, including an opportunity for us to fund your travel to JMM to participate.

As always, we love to hear how your TBIL classes are going and what additions to the TBIL Resource Library would help you through our Slack channel.