"Learning math as a universal language" The final video

 

eTwinning project "learning math as a universal language"

 Students from 4º ESO  and 1º Bachiller have been working in this project. They have contributed in several ways:

•  The older ones have been working with fractals and record videos about the Sierpinski Gasket and how todraw Koch snowflake using Geogebra (you can watch the videos in another post of this blog)

• The younger ones have writen algorithms about their ages, have simulated the Monty Hall Problem, have coded and decoded messages and have drawn pictures following French students' instructions

You can see below some example of their work

But, the easiest way of reading all the hard work thwy have done is to visit twinspace in the following link

Learning math as a universallanguage

Calculating the height of the basketball goal

 Bilingual students of 1º BACHA went to the basketball court abd measured the height of the goal using different  methods:

• Shadows and similarity
• Mirrors and similarity
• Theodolite and trigonometry

They also need a tape measure and a piece of chalk

They worked in 2 groups and the results were :

1. Group one: mean of the results 3,94 m
2. Group two: mean of the results 4,04 m

Surfing the Internet we found that the height of the top of the goal (it was the height we measured) is 3,95 m. So,our results are very accurate. Students realized that in their experiment the most accurate form was tu use shadows (mybe because our theodolites weren't very good)

Fractals, Mathematics and Arts

 Students from 1º bachA have been working with fractals and the relationship with mathematical concepts such as sequences and limits. They constructed two fractals using Geogebra and later they recorded a video explaining Sierpinski Gasket and shared them with our French partners in eTwinning.

This is Rubén's video

This is Cristina's video

Elena's video

Physical Education Exchange Project

Physical Education exchange project Bilingual students from first year of baccalaureate, mostly 16 years old, are very interested in doing and experience exchange with welsh students. They have different feelings about PE classes, first they were anxious to start practising but worry at the same time. I´m seeing that their physical condition has decrease in those months of quarantine and I have to adapt my classes to it and using mask. They have several questions for Glenda, a PE teacher in Walles, in order to share their feelings and concerns. Here you have their questions: Elena Rodríguez Rubio ( 16 years old) 28 sept.: Do you practice any sport in the afternoon or in your free time? Which one? Rubén Pérez Duro (16 years old ) 27 sept. I would like to know how the classes are since the pandemic began, especially, to know how you do exercise, we can't take off the mask unless we have a minimum distance of 1.5 meters with our classmates. Cristina Redondo Aguilar ( 16 ) 27 sept: What safety measures has your high school taken in P.E. classes? What kind of exercises or games do you do? Is there any sport you can’t play at the moment? I would like to know how the classes are since the pandemic began, above all, to know how you do exercise, we can't take off the mask unless we have a minimum distance of 1.5 meters with our classmates. María Martínez García ( 15 ) 28 sept: Have you done any kind of physical exercise during quarantine? Have you continued doing the exercise after it? Jonathan Martínez Felipe ( 16 ) 26 sept: How are you? How do you feel with this situation? Have you done sports this quarantine? How do you feel when you are doing sports with the mask? Do you think, physical activity has helped us to bear this situation? Was it your case? In what way?

Magazine of the Erasmus+ project "maths is around us"

A mag created with Madmagz.

Second Erasmus + mobility (Rétimo)

Last week the second mobility of the Erasmus+project "Maths is around us" ocurred. We went to Rethymno between January 26th and 31st, the topic in this ocasion was Mathematics and Arts.

Students have developed part of the activities in their countries and shared them in twinspace, for instance Spanish students share photos of symmetrical objects and work tesellations and fractal with Geogebra.

In Rethymno we worked in several workshops such as camera obscura,  t-shirts with our tesellations, receive information about symmetry (Romanian team prepared that) and went for a mathematical walk.

We also visited three museums, Knossos palace and learn more about Greek culture.

It was a great experience!!!!

Next meeting is in Hellín, we are eager to receive our partners.

A magazine of our Erasmus+ project

You can read it  here

A mag created with Madmagz.

SURVEY (FEELINGS ABOUT MATH), INPHOGRAPHICS

You can see the inphographic in this link https://create.piktochart.com/output/43373578-statistics-survey

First Erasmus+ mobility ( Brasov)

Last week, between December the 2nd and December the 6th, 5 students and 2 teachers went to Brasov (Romania) as a part of our Erasmus+ project "Maths is around us".

There, students worked with statistics and made several graphs and a report about the survey. They also made some inphografics using Canvas and participated in a treasure hunt in the main touristic places of Brasov.

Students were hosted by Romanian students and they became friend quickly. It was a great experience!!!!

If you are interested in reading what we did , all the information is in our blog https://mathsisaroundus.blogspot.com/

Above you can see some pictures of our participation.

Working with statistics

Students who belong to Erasmus+ "Maths is around us" team have been working with a survey.

The survey is about students' feelings and opinions about math classes.

This entry shows what they have done before the mobility to Brasov

• They translated they survey into Spanish so that their  classmates can answer easily the questions.
• Since teachers have decided that the sample is 20% of students, we decided to do a stratified random sample (for class groups)
• We made a random selection (students learnt how to use the # key in their scientific calculators). For this selection they used the following data:

• GROUP	NUMBER STUDENTS	NUMBER STUDENTS IN SAMPLE
  4º A	17	3
  4ºB	26	5
  1ºBACH A	33	7
  1º BACH B	29	6
  2º BACH A	31	6
  2ºBACH B	31	6

• Once we have the sample,students answer the survey (we thanks to all maths teachers at our school)
• Finally we upload to a shared spreadsheet in our twinspace our results so that we can make a report and an inphografic in Brasov

These are the questions in English:

Students of IES Izpisúa Belmonte (Hellín) are working in the survey

This week  1ºBach bilingual students have been working strength with games such as:

 1. Riders and horses: Players form pairs. One of them is horse and the other one is rider. Horses form a circle, and each rider is placed behind his horse. At a sign, riders ride on their horse and have to do five squats. When they finished, teaches gives another sign and riders have to get off the horse and run a whole turn around the circle and reach their horse. The last one will lose.

2. Deadline: Players form pairs. Each partner puts in front of the other one. They are separated by a line. When teacher says a signal, they take partner's hand and they have to get the opponent crosses the line. If his opponent crosses the line, he will lose.

Erasmus+ Maths is around us

I'm very happy to announce that this year we are running another Erasmus+ project in our school.
This one is for students between 15 and 17 years old (mainly students of first course of "bachiller"), and it is a school exchange partnership.  There are three involved countries: Greece, Romania and Spain.
Ten students will go abroad (5 will go to Romania in December and 5 to Greece in February) and we will host 10 students too (5 from each country).
We will do activities about maths through etwinning and during the exchanges.
As soon as we create our website I'll post here the link so that you can see what we are doing.
Pay attention to the hall at school because in a couple of weeks Erasmus+ corner will be open and we also will show an inphografic about Erasmus+ programme at Izpisua Belmonte