Magnemathicts. Pills to cure math colds Erasmus Project

Project Title

Magnemathicts. Pills to cure math colds

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Pedagogy and didactics; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

Justification and context of the project:
Throughout the course, both in the hospital classroom and in the home support service, we serve a large number of students. In many cases we have detected certain deficiencies in different aspects related to mathematics, mainly referred to the understanding of concepts, calculation and problem solving. Many of these “deficiencies” can be “treated” in the classroom but require resources, planning and previous methodology to achieve effectiveness in a short period of time. These are the reasons that drove this project and its development along with other European partners initially from the hospital environment, although due to the nature of the topic it has been possible to expand it to other educational institutions. It is interesting to contrast the method in different contexts such as those we can find in the institutions of our partners

Project Objectives:
The main lines that will guide the project are already included in the title itself:
– Endowment of materials and magnetic as a basis for manipulative mathematics where reality is a step prior to abstraction and the internalization of concepts.
– Magnetization refers to increasing the attraction to mathematics based on the game (gamification), curiosity, discovery and challenges.
– A review of the curricula of the different countries, as well as decision-making around the methodology and the type of activities we want to use.
– An important presence of ICTs that provide the enormous potential of the audiovisual, interactive, self-learning, play, as well as the relationship and communication.

Four have been the participating Organizations
– Bari: Nursery and Primary Education Classrooms located in a Pediatric Hospital and dependent on the “Circolo Didattico”, a center that includes different types of educational centers: three nurseries (3-6 years), two primary centers (6-11 years) , two classrooms in the pediatric hospital, one for children and one for primary school, and finally two schools in detention centers, one for juveniles and the other for adults.
– Oulu: Their students (from 7 to 17 years old, grades 1 to 9) come from different centers in the north of the country. Its units provide a safe learning environment for students with emotional disorders, behavior problems or adaptation problems, are attended by a multi-professional team following the national curriculum.
– Vilnius: Serves students (from 7 to 18 years old) from various regions of the country, who have special educational needs due to their family situation or health or behavior problems. They are cared for according to the basic curriculum during the time (between three weeks and four months) of their hospital care.
– Leganés (coordinator): Aula Hospitalaria de Leganés. Provides educational support, from children to high school, for students who due to their illness or convalescence remain hospitalized or at home without being able to attend their school.

Description of the main activities carried out;
Four coordination meetings have been held, two each course
Four training activities, two each course, in the form of seminars, which are discussed in more detail in section five and which address the different phases and objectives of the project: innovative methodologies; the manipulative materials; the methodology and didactics; and the applications and games.

The products are derived
– The revision of the mathematics curricula of primary education and first levels of secondary education in the different participating European countries. This represents the range of ages served by our centers, from children to the first cycle of compulsory education (from 3 to 13 years approximately)
– The collection, by each of the partners, of manipulative resources, mainly developed by the different blocks: numbers, operations, measurement, probability and statistics, geometry …
– The methodological indications for the use of the proposed resources and proposal of activities adapted to them
– The selection and collection of links to pages that address the same content in an interactive and playful way.
 
The results, which are described in greater detail in later sections, have exceeded those initially expected. The formula chosen for the development of the project, in the form of digital portfolios, allows an accumulation of resources that may even be excessive and an almost encyclopedic treatment of the subject. This has required an important task of classification and selection, a continuous cut to try to highlight what is important and what can best work for teaching and learning in the area.

The impact is important for the creation of new habits, the provision of new resources and their transfer to other centers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 60826 Eur

Project Coordinator

Aula Hospitalaria Leganés & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Tiernan koulu
• 26°circolo didattico monte san michele
• Vilniaus Jono Lauziko konsultacinis-mokymo centras
• Scoala Gimnaziala Nr. 21