Fostering Inquiry into Mathematics Education (FIME) was a project conducted by SummerMath for Teachers (SMT) of Mount Holyoke College. FIME included two courses for practicing teachers. These courses served as pilots for the Developing Mathematical Ideas Curriculum (DMI).

Inquiry into Mathematics Education (IME) was a DMI course for teachers who were new to the ideas involved in the mathematics education reform movement. Teacher to Teacher (TTT) was a DMI course for teachers who had been working for some time to implement teaching practices aligned with the NCTM Standards. Each course met twice monthly for three-hour sessions over the course of the academic year and awarded four graduate credits in mathematics education.

FIME was designed to enable teachers:

• to become aware of their own abilities as mathematical thinkers
• to learn how to analyze the mathematical thinking of their students
• to revisit the mathematical ideas embedded in the elementary curriculum
• to develop a spirit of collegial inquiry into teaching practice

FIME also offered a seminar designed for administrators, Inquiry into Mathematics Education for Administrators. Six two-hour sessions allowed administrators the opportunity to work on mathematics for themselves and to discuss teacher-written narratives which detailed the mathematical thinking of their students.

A total of twenty-nine teachers from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont completed one of the FIME seminars. Twenty-seven Massachusetts administrators were involved in the administrators' sessions.

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