Hi and welcome to YMTA project !
Your Mathematics Tour Abroad
About the project
- Apply maths to real situations in order to improve understanding in problem solving.
- Using photos from everyday life, create and solve problems, presented in English.
- Exchange and collaborate to develop mathematical problems and solution methods, through photos of problems.
- Share and discover cultural knowledge.
AIMS
- Create, understand and solve problems from everyday life.
- Develop students' perception of the mathematical objects around us, in order to raise mathematical questions.
- Use photography to solve problems: digital photos, audio, video tools (presentation of the situation, proposal of problems and solutions)
- Suggest, discover and adopt collaborative methods.
Work Process
Share photos of everyday life to suggest problems, linked to real life situations.
Using photos with mathematical features showing the problem, suggest problems in written or spoken English: text, video. Solve the problems proposed by other classes. Share and discuss mathematical methods used.
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Take photos with reference to problem situations from everyday life (geometry, +-x): they must include one or more mathematical elements necessary for solving the problem. These elements should not appear in the written problem, but these photos should be used as clues to help solve the problem.
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Put the maths photos on a collaborative space: it is important not to add a title or caption to the photos in order to encourage reflection.
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Choose a photo submitted by another class, suggest a problem in written or spoken English (text, video, audio).
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Discuss the given problems and propose one or more solution methods: photo of a class book, physical demonstration, audio or video media.
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Discover the problems and solutions proposed by other classes.
Expected Results
The final task: put together a catalogue of photos, illustrating maths problems and methods to solve them. https://www.mathsenvie.fr/