STATISTICS IN REAL LIFE Erasmus Project

Project Title

STATISTICS IN REAL LIFE

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Research and innovation; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

We witness a negative attitude from our students towards the meaning of understanding mathematics. They are often questioning the meaning with the different sections of our curriculum. One of the sections is Statistics, a topic with lower status than for instance geometry or algebra and we want to give our students a solid and clear hands-on picture about how math is everywhere and how statistics can give us lots of information from the real life.

The decreased motivation is worrying because their results from our schools are crucial for the next step in their education. Early leaving school must not be an option for our students. We will together analyze causes and consequences.

Our digital world has opened to door to fantastic opportunities in cooperation across borders, despite social, cultural, religious or political barriers. But this digital world came with a price. We will raise awareness about the dangers of sharing private data and photos. Does and don’ts on line. We are reducing words while writing on social networks and this is causing a change in the languages. The students will compare which language from the participant countries is the most affected by this fact.

On top of these, our observations with the weather station will lead to discussions about climate changes and the global environmental issues that have become some of the most worrying problems in this decade. Research about these issues will give mathematics a solid context from real life. We will do research about renewable energy, recycle and reuse and pollution.

With this in mind, the idea for this project consists of creating a plan of action, which helps to raise awareness within the communities around our schools by showing statistics regarding different environmental issues while keeping an eye on the possibilities and threats with social media. The goals with the project are:
Work with statistics, showing our students real experiences where statistics is used.
Gather and analyze data from the weather station at the schools participating in the project.
Become aware of the climate changes, analyze and compare what we do to counteract the effects.
Analyze the depopulation of rural regions.
Analyze the dangers and possibilities with social media, does and don’ts regarding sharing photos and personal data.
Analyze early leaving school.
Improve ICT skills and communication in English.

There are five participating organisations involved in the project:
-Hagalidskolan in Staffanstorp, Sweden, secondary school. There are 450 pupils of age 13-16 years. They offer classes from 7th to 9th grade and very proud of their sports profile.
-IES Ildefonso Serrano in Segura de León, Spain, secondary school. There are 46 teachers and around 350 students aged 12 to 18 years, from Compulsory Education to Non-Compulsory Education – Bachillerato and Vocational Training of Systems and Computer Applications
-Ekpaideftiria Bouga A.E in Kalamata, Greece, private school. Secondary education is attended by 171 pupils and 21 teaching staff. They develop school activities, such as active citizenship, environmental, cultural, and educational robotics.
-Szkola Podstawowa im. Powstancow Wielkopolskich w Wirach in Wiry, Poland There are over 500 students between 6 -15 years old and about 40 teachers. They have the national certificate of the Health Promotion School.
-Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho II in Alijó, Portugal. The school group consists of 9 schools, from kindergarten to secondary school, with students aged between 3 and 18 years, totaling approximately 1000 students. The school has 120 teachers and 52 non-teaching staff.

We have chosen a series of varied activities to accomplish the objectives proposed. They will be developed in the schools, in the surrounding area and in our meetings abroad.
The methodology to be used in carrying out the project will be based on student investigation, inquiry-based learning and practical projects. The strategy during the activities will be to work in small groups to develop cooperative skills.

Our students will improve their academic achievement with engaging lessons about the natural world that can be applied to all subject areas and grades. They will get several skills essential for succeeding in tomorrow’s world, such as questioning, investigating, defining problems, analyzing, interpreting, reasoning, developing conclusions, and solving problems. As for the teachers, they will have opportunities to integrate key competence goals into project and classroom content. They will improve their teaching skills and reinforce their relationships with colleagues through team work. And they will improve language competences and reinforce ITC skills. Concerning the parents, they will improve their relationships with their children and with the teachers. Finally, everybody will acquire a feeling of belonging to the European identity

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164980 Eur

Project Coordinator

Hagalidskolan & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa im. Powstancow Wielkopolskich w Wirach
• IES ILDEFONSO SERRANO
• EKPAIDEFTIRIA BOUGA A.E
• Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho II, Alijó