Through the MCM_app, students went on an outdoor walk along a route and solved mathematic problems that were contextualized with the surrounding environment. The students passed through special places in these cities, where mathematic can be experienced in everyday situations.
For example: buildings for logic problems, statues for numbers and counting, lakes and fountains for geometry, a swing to calculate angles measures, lake bridge to calculate areas, garden benches to apply combinatorial calculus, functions to model the proportions of colors along a corridor, or using the GPS tasks to pinpoint the foci of a very large ellipse.
A task which was really appreciated was an introduction to the Dewey classification system with decimal numbers, because a new theme can always emerge, since there are always a decimal between two different decimals, there is always room for improvement in this system. And the task was to find the decimal number associated with a given book from the library.
Finding the number of pages of mangas in there was as well a hit but the GPS tasks where one had to finish a square or place oneself at the middle between two inaccessible points were unexpected by the students.
.It is very gratifying to note that in all events, teachers and students participated in mass. Stands out the great enthusiasm from the students and mathematic teachers, they participate in general with energy and are willing to repeat the experience.
All students and teachers can take advantage of a new context to transmit knowledge, contributing to greater motivation for learning mathematics. Students were amazed to participate in the math rails, but to cross a math trail using mobile devices and GPS functions to find the tasks location were fantastic.
These activities generally increased the students’ engagement to learn mathematics. The teachers were interested not only to play but as well to understand the different types of questions that could be addressed. These actions were fairly disseminated by the media.
Usually mathematics appears in the news surrounded by a negative scenario, but with our events, mathematics came to the house of families in a positive, constructive and dynamic way.
In the poster, we would present examples of tasks of the routes from the math trails, highlighted the details to consider them like starting points to promote the modelling process in the learning. To evaluate the degree of satisfaction of teachers and students were conducted surveys in different events, which show the high degree of satisfaction and evaluate the impact on learning.
Source : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02422195/document
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment