See Inside Maths

Objectives we wanted to achieve: - to involve partners from different countries with important experience in using specific methodologies or the specific field of learning math. - to provide a...

Objectives we wanted to achieve: - to involve partners from different countries with important experience in using specific methodologies or the specific field of learning math. - to provide an opportunity to exchange math knowledge as one of the best ways of practising gained understanding. - to involve students with different abilities. - to help pupils think analytically. - by actively participating in the project development, to motivate pupils to achieve the expected results, thus enhancing their commitment and social skills towards a common goal. - to share experiences and knowledge in teamwork of different countries as the means of overcoming any kind of prejudices. - to support active European citizenship and bring the European dimension awareness. - to learn to use new digital resources in math as a way to raise interest in learning about innovative mathematical research. - to inspire all participants’ tuition with the partners' ideas leading to improvements, in proportion to the context of each organisation.

The first part of the project was about online communication between coordinators and afterwards between students. There were included regular teachers’ online meetings when there were discussed and set preparatory pre-get-to-know activities and first math tasks of the field of the math connected with the topic of the followed mobility to avoid the difficulty of technical vocabulary for all students. After the online cooperation, there were organized three pupils’ math meetings in the Czech Republic, Romania, and Spain based on the specific maths topic. During math meetings, pupils worked on given projects based on math problems focused on an innovative way of learning in mixed-country teams. Pupils worked together by actively sharing their experiences. All activities were focused on the real and active cooperation between students and made up for the country-mixed groups so that students improve their language, socialization and friendship. There were also implemented interactive workshops guided by professionals when students got to know regional cultural interests in informal ways. Students had also an opportunity to experience culture directly among the locals in the host families who cared for them for 7 days.

The first output used to assess the quality of the prepared partial projects and to evaluate the first impact was students’ motivation to communicate through online platforms. Generally, partial outcomes and results were made up and shared with all participants. The teachers and students were asked to review what was going well and what could be improved for future work. Based on the results, we could assess if the included activities achieved the intermediate goals of the given meeting. By analysing active attitudes to work in county-mixed-teams we could see the level of communication and participation of all partners as a significant outcome of the social competencies. To share this impact, we used different kinds of student presentations, a video of cooperative work, concrete solutions of the task in document form (using sharing documents and presentation), and answers for the questions in quizzes, questionnaires (Kahoot, Google Forms, WhatsApp, Padlet,…). All outcomes are published on the website of the project www.seeinmath.eu as the main result of the project.