The magazine of "learning math through pi "(eTwinning project)

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BEST TOOLS FOR TEACHING AT HOME (Friday, 22nd May 2020)

Message for teachers who work from home with their students:

- To create virtual classes the best free educational platforms I think are "Edmodo", "Google Classroom" and "Microsoft 365", although the official platforms of each Autonomous Community can be used (they are saturated and not prepared for this).

- To play learning from home (and evaluate if you want), "Quizizz" (Homework mode) and "Kahoot" (challenge mode), or "Socrative" (career mode).

- For presentations and reviews, "Genially", "Prezi", "TeacherTube" and the classic "Power Point" too.

- To create and design digital books "BookCreator" is the best, also you could do a "Word" enriched with hyperlinks and transfer it to PDF.

- To create and edit videos, "YouCut" is the best value, only for Android.

- To create documents or collaborative works in group "Google Docs".

- To do online exams, "Google Forms", (concise type, test, short answer, long answer, images, etc.) and tests in "Edmodo" limiting the time of the exam to 30 or 40 minutes only.

- In case you want to make a conference with your students from home or create a live class, "Google Hangouts Meet", "Skype", "Discord", "Zoom" and the "Houseparty" or "Whassap" App (only 4) , "Microsoft Teams" or "Jitsi", are ideal for giving distance classes to your students or for virtual meetings and conferences.

See you soon in classroom! Be brave at home with the final term.

KAHOOT AT HOME AGAINST CORONA-VIRUS. (Friday, 13th March 2020).

If you can´t go to class about Virus or quarantine while We are at home, We can play from home with our smartphones and tablets against our classmates. Teachers and Students can develop games or challenges from home for practice with distance. Similar games can be created free with Quizizz, Socrative, Canvas or Google Forms. Here, We are playing Kahoot at live in our lessons of Social Studies, our students learn how to ask good questions and design pictures of History. Try to used it at home and share with your teachers and peers!

(Here, Nor is playing Kahoot with his classmates of History)

WE PLAY KAHOOT IN CLASS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (Friday, 14th February 2020).

We play Kahoot in our lessons of Social Studies, our students learn how to ask good questions and design pictures of Geography. I recently provided them with an opportunity to produce games in classroom of Social Sciences. There’s a lot to like about Kahoot: it’s free, capable of working on tablets, smartphones, and computers, and (as your students will surely agree), it’s a super engaging, user-friendly way to check for understanding. Used it in classroom!

(Jorge is playing Kahoot with his classmates of Geography 

about Natural Environments in Spain and Castilla-La Mancha. Good job!)

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Another experiment about Pi

Today in 4ESO we have experienced how to calculate pi weighting.

The idea is to calculate the ratio between the volume(weight) of a cylinder and a prism which share the height and knowing that the base of the cylinder is inscribed in the square base of the prism.

Students of 1st course prepared the material, you can see photos below.

But we found a problem, the cardboard is not rigid enough, thanks to our French partner we have plastic models made in a 3D printer, using those models we have very accurate results for pi such as 3.13, 3,08 and 3,15.

It has been a lovely experience of collaboration between two different levels , subjects (technology and mathematics) and teachers. We will repeat soon!!!

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.