Become European math champions Erasmus Project

Project Title

Become European math champions

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Our partnership involves 6 schools in Europe with 4070 students from different socio-economical backgrounds. We have been and we are still working in new teaching methodologies of Maths but we still need to continue learning to improve our students’ grades and motivation in maths. Not all students learn in the same way, so we are also looking for different approaches that make us include all students in our classrooms to help them to achieve the most of their possibilities. More and more we articulate maths with other areas, thus, it will be a good opportunity to articulate maths with ICT and English, contributing so that the results in these disciplines are surpassed. It is also important to improve our students’ socialization and culture because they are not used to travelling and having contact with people from other countries, what is more, some families have few economic resources and this will also be a good opportunity for these students. In this way we want to instill in our students’ habits of sharing and discovering other realities so that in the future they will continue to adopt this posture, thus contributing to an improvement of knowledge, social and cultural capacities of all countries that may be involved.
Taking into account our priorities, we have declared the objectives stated below, always taking in mind that the protagonists of our project are our students. We like to share our methods of learning maths with other countries and show our students’ learning skills and the teaching reality of other countries; Find inclusive methods to apply in the maths classroom; Improve school results, especially in maths and English and make maths an attractive area for students; Exchange ideas with other members of the EU on the use of teaching materials and the use of digital tools (STEAM) in the field of maths to make our students feel more competent in these areas; Improve our students’ communication skills with people who speak other languages ​​using the English language; Promote the socialization of our students by promoting the culture of our students and get to know the culture of other countries by promoting knowledge shared between students and teachers in the EU.
The activities carried out during the project are used to work on different cultural aspects of the countries of our partnership but always connected to maths, so the idea is to connect our students’ real life with maths. For example, from the starting point of knowing about our habits, our different languages, our culture, among others, we will work on our findings, analyse our data, think of our differences and similarities to reach conclusions by working cooperatively and collaboratively. Students and teachers will learn on different ways to works on Maths by attending real classrooms and workshops that let learn “in situ” the pedagogical methods applied to help our students. Visit cultural sites of every country and Maths museums have been considered because maths can be found everywhere and we are interested in presenting to the students that maths come from reality and it is in their everyday lives. Thanks to the activities planned we will be able to collect a summary of practices, tasks and methods that every school will include in their teaching programming and even in their Educational Project of the School, according to their needs.
To disseminate the project, many resources will be considered in three different moments of the project. In the preparation phase: eTwinning and meetings with the educative community. In the implementation phase: eTwinning, the web of our school and the educative community and in the disseminating phase: eTwinning, the web of our project, Platform of Results and local educational authorities. As it can be seen, eTwinning is the tool that can be used in every phase of the project, as we will upload the products of our activities and publish our results (it will be upload as well in the webpage of the project). eTwinning is also used as a tool for communication between students and teachers.
We expect to impact, first of all, our schools by having more teaching/learning practices to apply in our classrooms related to maths, students by improving the school results in maths and English, internationalising the school thanks to the visit of the European schools in the mobilities and working with them. Second, the rest of the educative community, families that will have learnt about other cultures, the educational authorities that will be asked to help us promote our project, other schools that are interested in maths teaching, the government local politicians that will be asked to introduce our community to the visiting countries.
In the long-term, the schools participating in the project, the whole educational community will benefit from the project. The new methods applied will be assessed in the long-term in our schools. Our project will inspire others and be complemented in other ways.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 184270 Eur

Project Coordinator

Escola Bertí & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO DE AMICIS-DA VINCI CASERTA
• Scoala Gimnaziala ,,Mihai Eminescu,, Radauti
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Frazão, Paços de Ferreira
• OSNOVNA SKOLA BRACE RADICA PAKRAC
• 4TH PRIMARY SCHOOL OF LIVADIA