MatLan, Learning maths and languages through research and cooperation

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Speaking in different languages, understanding with mathematics.

The MatLan project (2014-1-RO01-KA201-002699) builds on the experience gained by the French partner in the MATh.en.JEANS (MeJ) workshops, which at this moment are being implemented in 150 schools in France, aiming to valorise students’ creativity and innovation by inviting them to discover and research mathematics. Mathematics in the classroom is too abstract for students to feel attracted to it, but in the workshops they get to mathematically investigate issues that no-one has an answer to yet. MatLan adds onto the MeJ experience a series of new dimensions:

  • the assessment dimension: guidelines will be created for assessing students' skills (soft skills and mathematical competences) developed through mathematical research within the MeJ workshops;
  • the inter-cultural dimension: inter-cultural exchanges around mathematical issues will be encouraged;
  • the multilingualism/plurilingualism dimension: opportunities will be created for the students’ language learning through collaboration in mathematical research activities;
  • the formal education dimension: organisers will demonstrate and promote a possibility for including the MeJ workshop (non-formal education) into the school curriculum (formal education);

The objectives of the project are:

  • to provide opportunities for high-school students to develop their mathematical skills by conducting mathematical research and collaboration with students from another EU country;
  • to improve language learning (French in Romania and English/Romanian in France);
  • to create guidelines for assessing students' skills (soft skills and mathematical competences) developed through mathematical research conducted within the MeJ workshop;
  • to include the MeJ workshop in the school's curricular provision as an elective course;
  • to provide opportunities for mathematics and language teachers to share experiences and practices of supporting students in learning mathematics and languages and to collaborate with European colleagues to improve their teaching practices.
  • The project participants are 80 students from upper secondary schools and 13 teachers of mathematics, foreign languages and ICT from the same schools where the students learn in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Briançon, France.

 

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