Maths by Heart Erasmus Project

Project Title

Maths by Heart

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 2019

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The project “Maths by Heart” brings together six primary schools in six European countries: France (coordinator), Croatia, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Lithuania.

The main objective of the project is to improve the teaching of mathematics and to improve the quality of the mathematics lessons taught to our students. Project partners aim to share their best practice, showcase the learning methods and teaching materials they think are most effective and experiment with the implementation of new practices.They will work towards uniting their students around a project on fundamental learning principles.

They also want to develop within their students a desire to communicate and share their experiences with their European partners and develop a shared sense of European citizenship. As a result, two other underlying objectives emerge: the development of their skills and abilities to use information technology equipment and new communication technologies, and the improvement of their level of English, which will be the working language for this project.

The project targets all students in the six partner schools between the ages of 5 and 12. This represents approximately 2,200 students and almost 200 teachers. There are also a significant number of students with special/additional needs (autistic spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, motor disability) and the number of migrants, most of whom are learning the host country language from the participating schools represented. They will be fully integrated into this project, as well as the teachers who teach them.

The methodology used in the project consists of presenting, experimenting, implementing new approaches in teaching situations and evaluating original methods of teaching mathematics. These methods will be introduced at each team meeting and will be the subject of a course and experiments over a period of approximately 30 hours. They will then be the subject of an activity (there will be six in all during the projects): The teachers will present the aforementioned methods to their pupils, then implement them in an experiential way with their pupils, and then the pupils will have to complete some follow-up activities. At the same time, they will have to communicate (emails, videos, video conferences) with their peers and present their work, experimentation, progress and learning.

Each activity will be the subject of a written or filmed presentation (posters, videos, computer documents, etc…) by the pupils who have participated.
Various methods will be used to teach the various parts of mathematics, namely numeration, numeracy, geometry, measurement and problem solving.

The expected impact is an improvement in our students’ mathematics performance in national and school-based assessments and evaluations. By exchanging teacher’s best practices and diversifying their approaches and methodologies, they can increase the impact their lessons and improve student outcomes.

They will also create a mathematics databank which will be developed with the results gleaned from the six activities that will serve other primary school educators.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 143536 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ecole élémentaire Jean Macé & Country: FR

Project Partners

• St. Nicholas NS
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE “MICHELE PIRONTI”
• Ivan Cankar Primary School
• Vilniaus inzinerijos ir technologiju licejus
• Primary School Kariotissas