Maths Together Erasmus Project

Project Title

Maths Together

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Transport and mobility; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

The aim of the project ‘MaTo’ has been to help motivate teachers to a teaching methodology and students in a new approach toward the mathematics and its learning
It included multidisciplinary competences of literacy (the working language is’English) and calculating capacity by facilitating the exchange of knowledge and good practices between 6 European countries: Italy (leading partners); Hungary; Poland; Germany; the United Kingdom and France.
The pursued and shared idea was to plan, prepare and conduct a series of recreational mathematics competitions by using ICT in each of the participating countries and to make teachers skillful at’ the use of the software and the autonomous management of a race, both to collaborate in the production of problems on topics shared, both to help making use of mathematics fun and interesting.
In races during the meetings of project, teams were transnational, each composed of six students of different nationalities, while during the training on-line the teams were formed by students of the same school.
Teamwork allowed the opportunities to solve problems with mutual aid of companions, and the type of race by updating the results in real time allowed to come back to study an alternate process of resolution when verifying errors, encouraging students to try and possibly try again, especially those who find the mathematics difficult and boring.
Since mathematics is often considered an insurmountable obstacle, our goal was to build a climate of confidence and to demonstrate that errors are an essential part of the learning process.
Maths contests are not currently widely used in schools because they are sometimes regarded as a waste of time or a diversion from the formal syllabus, but they contribute significantly to build a cross-curriculum favoring the critical thinking in students and encouraging the use of mathematical skills in other fields.
The project has consolidated and extended the acquiring of basic skills as well as offered an opportunity for comparison for teachers and deepening for students.
Thanks to the cooperation grown between the teachers participating in the project, the ability to share and compare the basic knowledge of mathematics was developed , as well as similarities and differences between content, share and compare techniques of problem-solving, experiences, methods and comments and other aspects that have helped to achieve positive results.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 132000 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE TITO LUCREZIO CARO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Lycée général et technologique Auguste Béhal
• Zespol Szkol Nr 1 im. Legionow Polskich
• Heanor Gate Science College
• Kobanyai Szent László Gimnázium
• Viscardi-Gymnasium Fürstenfeldbruck