Mathina – Innovative Digital Mathematics for Educators, Young Learners, and Parents to Connect Non-formal and Formal Learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mathina – Innovative Digital Mathematics for Educators, Young Learners, and Parents to Connect Non-formal and Formal Learning

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

MATHINA is based on STORY-DRIVEN ONLINE MATHEMATICAL EXPERIENCES, in which children and young learners encounter fictional characters that find themselves in mathematical adventures. The stories bring up concepts, challenges, and puzzles that the user can interact with, reflect on and learn from. Attractively portrayed content in an online MATHINA world can be used by parents to play with their kids, by teachers as a didactical tool or directly by young learners eager to discover more maths.

The stories promote mathematical thinking by developing, implementing and disseminating open educational tools adequate to the digital age and thus CONNECTING NON-FORMAL AND FORMAL LEARNING of mathematics. MATHINA learning process is participatory & experience-based, stimulates OPEN EDUCATION AND INNOVATIVE PRACTICES IN A DIGITAL ERA and PROMOTES THE ACQUISITION OF SKILLS AND COMPETENCES of educators and young learners.

MATHINA developed 4 INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS:
(1) INNOVATIVE MATHINA PROGRAMME, presenting quality non-formal educational materials on 4 topics: spatial visualisation, logical thinking, cryptography and symmetry in an easy understandable way through entertaining games mainly for parents, but also for educators. Link to Mathina`s Booklet: https://mathina.eu/documents/Booklet_Mathina.pdf?v=1584032400
(2) MATHINA REPOSITORY FOR EDUCATORS leads educators (and parents) through MATHINA world explaining mathematical concepts, offering didactical knowledge and detailed instructions of how to use the apps. Link to Educator`s Repository: https://mathina-edu.netlify.app/. For active exchange of good practices between formal and non-formal educators MATHINA HUB was created, available on FB https://www.facebook.com/Mathinaland/, and You Tube channel @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBKHA9GSfNE.
(3) MATHINA REPOSITORY FOR YOUNG LEARNERS (and their parents) to learn math in an engaging and fun way with a girl Mathina and her brother Leo in a magical land Platonia. The repository is drawn by an illustrator and is highly INNOVATIVE: easy-to-use, easy-to-understand, easy-to-adapt and easy-to-include. Tools provide a combination of simplification, design, character, gamification, storytelling and educational background. Link to Mathina`s interactive world: https://mathina-hub.netlify.app/
(4) INNOVATIVE MATHINA HANDBOOK FOR EDUCATORS (and parents) offers additional material, explanations, and resources on 32 pages. Link to Mathina Book for Educators: https://mathina.eu/documents/Handbook_Mathina_en.pdf.

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS were tested&validated in FOCUS GROUPS (FG1-4) and presented in MULTIPLIER EVENTS (ME1-4) in 4 partner countries: in Germany, Finland, Italy and Portugal. All MATHINA materials stay free & open licenced.

33 STAKEHOLDERS were already included by signing the Associated Partnership (AP) before the project started while 5 new APs were attracted throughout the project along with 66 actively included stakeholders in ME1-4 as the 2nd RING OF STAKEHOLDERS. Stakeholders were targeted through one-on-one meetings and actively included in ME1-4 to link the non-formal and formal learning and to recommended MATHINA to teachers.

LOCAL/REGIONAL COMMUNITY, GENERAL PUBLIC and were included through dissemination events in four partner countries and internationally.

The following PARTICIPANTS were directly impacted:
– 299 young learners through focus groups (surplused by 119 from promised 180),
– 291 educators through focus groups and ME1-4 (surplused by 171 from promised 120),
– 66 stakeholders through ME1-4 (surplused by 6 from promised 60),
– 44 directly involved individuals from the general public on ME1-4, and additional general public through dissemination.

MATHINA`s legacy is a digital online environment, guaranteeing TRANSNATIONAL use by a mouse click. The OVERALL DISSEMINATION AND SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT is focused on active use of project results, making the Erasmus+ Programme visible. The strongest international impact has been reached through the coordinator IMAGINARY’s existing network of partners in 55 countries. Project partners under the coordination of IMAGINARY (DE), namely EXPERIENCE WORKSHOP (FI), CURVILINEA (IT), ATRACTOR (PT) and BRAGI (SI) assure the existence of outputs after its closure on in MATHINA online world https://mathina.eu.

Project Website

https://mathina.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 222264 Eur

Project Coordinator

IMAGINARY GGMBH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Experience Workshop ay
• Associação Atractor – Matemática Interativa
• Bragi, Vizualne komunikacije, Urh Ferlez s.p.
• Curvilinea Società Cooperativa
• Mathema, zavod za popularizacijo matematike