IBL is a way of teaching and learning mathematics and science in which students are invited to work in the way mathematicians and scientists work.
When students are involved in an IBL lesson, they need to put into play their prior knowledge and a wide variety of processes, like simplifying and structuring complex problems, observing systematically, measuring, classifying, creating definitions, quantifying, inferring, predicting, hypothesizing, controlling variables, experimenting, visualizing, discovering relationships and connections, and communicating