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About the project & Project plan

  • Aims of the project

    Through the MatReLan project we aim to develop the following students' competences and skills:
    - making use of aids and tools competence - IT included (math competence);
    - collaborative problem solving competence (transversal competence);
    - oral interactive communication skills for presenting the research results (communication skills & math competence);
    - oral scientific communication skills for presenting the research results in a foreign language (communication and language skills & math competence);
    - written scientific communication skills for presenting the research results (communication and language skills & math competence);
    - online collaboration skills;
    - metacognitive skills;
    - EN & RO language skills (for the FR students) and FR &EN language skills (for the RO students).
    Through the MatReLan project we also aim to support the math teachers from the two partner schools to improve the delivery of the inquiry-based learning approach in a collaborative and interactive context.

    Work process

    The work process of the MatReLab project includes:
    - math research topics are launched by professional researchers after being discussed with the teachers (FR) - Oct. 2016
    - students get a math research topic by choosing what they want to work on (RO & FR) - Oct. 2016
    - establishing the RO&FR students' research groups (RO&FR) - end of Oct. 2016
    - students work in groups for doing the research (RO&FR)- it includes online RO&FR communication, video conferences for sharing the research approach/ results among RO&FR students who research the same topic (RO&FR) - Nov. 2016 - March 2017
    - teachers and professional researchers facilitate student research in each partner-school and in the online environment (RO&FR) - Nov. 2016 - March 2017
    - RO&FR research-groups of students collaborate for preparing the oral&scientific communication of the research results (RO) - March - April 2017
    - RO & FR research-groups of students collaborate for preparing the research article (FR) - May - June 2017

    Video-conferences

    23 November 2016 @13.00 CET - Research topics 2 and 4

    14 December 2016 @ 13.00 CET - Research topics 1 and 6

    11 January 2017 @ 13.00 CET - Research topics 10, 5 and 3

    1 February 2017 @ 13.00 CET - Research topics 7, 8, and 9

    Assessment

    • students collaboration on eTwinning - December 2016
    • collaborative problem solving competence - December 2016/ January 2017 & May/ June 2017
    • making use of aids and tools competence - December 2016/ January 2017 & May/ June 2017
    • oral skills for communication about the project results - after each event
    • written skills for communication about the project results - June 2017
    • project evaluation - June 2017

    Expected results

    - Progress in the development of the students' skills&competences (making use of aids and tools competence - IT included, collaborative problem solving competence, oral interactive & scientific communication skills for presenting the research results a foreign language, written scientific communication skills for presenting the research results, online collaboration skills, metacognitive skills, EN & RO language skills - for the FR students, and FR &EN language skills -for the RO students);
    - Research articles written by RO&FR students;
    - Public Twinspace;
    - Improvement of the delivery of the 'Doing Math as Researchers Do It' elective course in both partner-schools;
    - Development of math teachers' skills in using inquiry-based learning approach in their teaching;
    - Development of students' and teachers' international competencies (openness, flexibility, listening orientation, transparency – exposing intentions, cultural knowledge).