Math and Motivation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Math and Motivation

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Pedagogy and didactics; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

The EU’s plan for tackling early school leaving aims to reduce the average drop-out rate to below 10% by 2020. To give their contribution to this ambitious goal, 8 organisations (schools and training providers) from 7 EU countries developed the idea for the project “Math & Motivation”. The main aim of the M&M project was to improve basic skills of secondary school students in the sphere of math and sciences and reduce dropout rate in Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain. This aim was achieved through:
– development and testing of Collaborative methodology and implementing it in an on-line e-platform
– development and testing of a Curriculum with lesson plans for improving math, science and literacy skills of school students
– improving the competences of teachers into creating and applying innovative teaching methods and tools (including ICT) in their classroom in order to increase the students motivation to be more actively engaged in their learning process and improving their academic results
The innovation that M&M project offered was the combination of three innovative teaching methods (self/peer learning, gamification and flipped learning) into one complex Collaborative methodology available in the form of theoretical guidelines as well as a base of an e-learning platform for collaborative learning: an online environment for teachers that supports modern approaches and models in learning. The platform can be used by teachers and students with the strong focus on achieving learning outcomes with the use of peer learning, quizzes and ability to check-mark rather than grade individual students.
The direct target groups and beneficiaries of the M&M project were math and science teachers and secondary school students in the partner countries and in Europe (more than 140 teachers and 430 students involved in total).
In the course of 2 years (September 2017-August 2019) the project partnership put many efforts and dedication on order to achieve the aims and results drafted in the initial proposal. During the first year was created IО1 – The Toolkit for teachers, consisting of the Collaborative methodology and the Curriculum aiming at increasing math and science skills. It was presented during the LTTA staff training in Italy (March 2018) aiming to provide the participants opportunity to share and exchange knowledge and good practices, learn the new methodology and to create the program and activities for the national cascade trainings. Based on the feedback, suggestions and comments of the participants in the event the Toolkit was improved and finalised before the end of the first year of the project. The national cascade trainings took place at the beginning of school year 2018/2019 in all partner countries. The aim of these events was to acquaint more teachers with the innovative toolkit and engage them in the further testing of the methodology and online platform in real classroom environment.
The second project year was dedicated to the work on IO2 – Collaborative learning e-tools platform. All partners worked hard to set up the online learning environment, fill it in with content and test it among the target group – teachers and secondary school students. The piloting of the platform was implemented in the period May-July 2019. The last month of the project (August 2019) was used for finalization of the platform and improvements based on the results of the national testings.
All products and results in the frame of Math & Motivation project were widely disseminated on the national multiplier events during the final months of the project implementation.
Considering the feedback, interest and comments received during the whole project duration by interested parties at different occasions, it could be concluded that the project and its activities had and will continue to have a very positive impact on the participating organisations as well as on the direct target group – teachers and students, thus providing a positive influence at local and national level. All teachers who participated in the different stages of the project declared with certainty that they will continue to use the e-platform and the toolkit in their future work. They all considered M&M products as an innovative and attractive supplement to the formal school activities that could increase the students’ motivation in their learning and improve their peer to peer connection. The students themselves were very happy to participate in the project and stated that they would like to continue to use the platform during the next school year. The attractiveness and efficiency of the method will help to ensure the sustainability of the project results.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 218125 Eur

Project Coordinator

REGIONALNO UPRAVLENIE NA OBRAZOVANIETO SOFIA GRAD & Country: BG

Project Partners

• Asociatia pentru Dezvoltare Antreprenoriala, Pregatire Profesionala si Transfer Tehnologic (ADAPT)
• Istituto Statale E.Montale
• INSTALOFI LEVANTE SL
• EPRALIMA – ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DOALTO LIMA – COOPERATIVA DE INTERESSE PUBLICO E RESPONSABILIDADE LIMITADA
• Strojarska tehnicka skola Osijek
• SDRUDZENIE ZNAM I MOGA
• DANMAR COMPUTERS SP ZOO