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Maths Art Technology For An Harmonius Society
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

MATHS project, or "Maths Art Tecnology For An Hamonius Society" is a K2 Erasmus+ strategic partnership for school education(only school, aiming to enhance the students’ maths attainments and strengthen the teaching profession,learning ability of students , through opening the education and development GeoGebra hypermedia resources for teaching maths, interactive, multilingual and inclusive. In the way toward Information Age and the Global Knowledge Society, school education faces with a transition period to a new pedagogy, technology adapted. Explosive development and spread of new technologies and digital devices is a fact, and today students are prone to use technology in the most moments of their lives, including for learning. How the school education and systems do adapt to this situation? In our organizations, we encountered a decreasing of students’ motivation to learn mathematics, explained in contrary ways by students and teachers. Students complain that maths is too hard and abstract, while teachers sustain that students are rather distracted by the information explosion, smartphones use and social networking, and unfocused on learning activity. However, truth is always at the middle, and the apparently conflict could be solved through increase of use of technology in maths teaching, introducing innovation and make the maths lessons insightful and attractive using open educational resources and maths software in teaching and learning. Though, an analysis of the existent ICT-based maths educational resources revealed a scarcity of them, in terms of to not be widely accessible, comprehensive, multilingual, or inclusive. However, latest studies revealed that although the most schools are equipped with ICT and devices, these are used more for preparation, and less for teaching process. Among reasons for which teachers avoid the use of technology in the teaching process are failure or distrust of ICT training and insufficient proper open educational resources. In the strategies Europe 2020 Horizon and ET 2020, European Commission recommends opening the education, development of OER and use of ICT in teaching, as well as revising the teaching profession. Therefore, naturally resulted the followings project objectives: - to improve the students attainments in maths, including from early education, and reduce the early school leaving; - to support and develop hypermedia open educational resources for mathematics, interactive, multilingual and inclusive; - to revise and strengthen the maths teaching profession, promoting and facilitating the use of technology in teaching mathematics. The partners are from Turkey,Grecee,Spain,Portugal,Germany,Italy,France being general secondary schools, In order to achieve the project objectives, partners will carry out various activities, never isolated, but reinforcing each other, experience exchange and training activities assuring the project products quality, and products’ work enhancing the participants training, as learning by doing: - Project management, dissemination, transfer and sustainability assurance; - Short-term Learning/Teaching/Training Activities , experience exchanges, To properly carry out the activities, partnership provide a coordination tree structure lead by a general coordinator, seconded by an executive coordinating the school partners, permanent communication and cooperation between partners constitute the basis of the partnership. At the end of partnership we will deliver three intellectual products: Hypermathix - a math problem-solving GeoGebraBook for ninth grade, Mathgames: Play and Evolve! – a math games collection for education. as well as other important results, in terms of changing mentality and professional training, namely the enhance of use and development of OER. We expect a significant impact local and international as well, since the project products are thought to be comprehensive, multilingual and inclusive. They will be available in 8 languages as open free resources on GeoGebraTube, and promoted on eTwinning platform and international conferences. Moreover, we think that MATHS is only the first stone on a foundation, a basis on we will build further, in further partnerships, the OER of 2020, and the long-term most benefit is engaging our organizations into an irreversible development process.
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