Erasmus Project

Project Title

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Pedagogy and didactics; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Why do we talk in maths? We talk in maths to:- Clarify thinking- Think through ideas- Express thoughts and opinions- Share knowledge- Review ideas- Adapt and improve ideas- Negotiate solutions, meaning and understandingSo learning mathematical vocabulary and talking about mathematical ideas are essential to the development of understanding in mathematics…and students love to talk…but not about maths. Students can learn (and in fact create!) new words to talk to their peers…but struggle to learn mathematical vocabulary.We aim to develop strategies that change this, developing students’ ability to talk about maths and explain their mathematical thinking using subject specific vocabulary, and in the long term increase student understanding of, and attainment in, mathematics.Objectives:To create a toolkit of lesson resources to develop students’ literacy skills in mathematics, specifically- spoken language skills – use of mathematical vocabulary.- ability to explain their mathematical thinking verballyTo change teacher pedagogy to include specific participatory strategies within mathematics lessons to purposefully develop students’- spoken language skills in mathematics lessons- use of mathematical vocabulary – ability to explain their mathematical thinking verballyTo improve the attainment of young people by increasing students’ competence in their ability to- use mathematical vocabulary – explain their mathematical thinking verbally- to get better maths results, especially for the low performersThe project partners consist of six schools from five countries: the UK, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey and Italy. This partnership of schools represents various cultures, languages, traditions, education systems, approaches to and experience of teaching and learning mathematics, allowing us to look at the issue from alternative angles and thus approach the solutions from these different angles. We intend to achieve this through the development of resources that we will trial in the classroom and refine through discussion and collaboration, supporting and challenging each other in order to create the most effective strategies and resources possible to develop students spoken language skills in mathematics.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 157670 Eur

Project Coordinator

Vereniging voor Christelijk Voortgezet onderwijs Rotterdam en omgeving, Christelijke Scholengemeenschap Comenius College & Country: NL

Project Partners

• Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College
• IV Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. C. K. Norwida w Bialymstoku
• IIS” Vincenzo Cardarelli” Tarquinia
• LÜLEBURGAZ LISESI
• Radviliskio Lizdeikos gimnazija