In learning centres, students are supported by staff and student tutors. The master's degree course in mathematics and technomathematics includes a "mathematical internship" with practice-oriented project work. In addition, the minor subject or technical focus subject can be strongly expanded. In the Master's degree course, in addition to individual courses, a Master's focus is identified each year, i.e. coordinated courses introduce students to a research area. Teacher training courses cover a spectrum from special needs education to the Teaching Qualification for Grammar and Comprehensive Schools.

University of Liège, Belgien; Adam Mickiewicz University, Belgien; Stockholm University, Schweden; University of Valencia, Spanien; Charles University in Prague, Tschechische Republik; Mersin University, Türkei; University of Debrecen, Ungarn; Le Mans Université, Frankreich; Université de Lorraine, Frankreich

In three pool rooms are altogether. 51 Fujitsu Esprimo P420 workstations ready. One room has 25 Linux workstations, as well as two computer rooms with 15 and 11 Windows 7 computers respectively. All systems have Intel I3 processors (4th Generation), 8GB RAM, SSD hard disks as well as 24'' TFT monitors and are managed by the institute's computer operations. For computer-based lectures, in addition to Mathematics software such as Mupad, Matlab, Mathematica etc., the current version of LaTeX environments, compilers and libraries are available. There is an interactive classroom management system in the Windows pool rooms.

The research at the institute can be assigned to "Harmonic Analysis, Representation Theory and Number Theory", "Analysis and Simulation of Dynamic Processes" as well as "Didactics of Mathematics"; the institute or faculty is/are involved in: Paderborn Institute for Scientific Computation (PaSCo), Institute for Industrial Mathematics IFIM, Paderborn Institute for Advanced Studies in Computer Science and Engineering PACE, Center for Educational Research and Teacher Training PLAZ.

Business start-ups are supported interdisciplinary by the technology and business start-up centre "TecUP" of the University of Paderborn (among others by lecture series and certificates).

Every year, the institute holds the Weierstraß lecture, to which high-ranking Mathematicians are invited. The series is named after Karl Weierstraß, who, in 1834, obtained his school leaving certificate from the Theodorianum grammar school in Paderborn "primus omnium" (the best in the year).