Relevant initiatives

3E's e- counting, e-culture, e-communictions

Dun Guzepp Zerafa primary Schoo

2008-2010

European

Yes

LLP Comenius Multirateral partnership

3E's e- counting, e-culture, e-communictions

Dun Guzepp Zerafa primary School

2008-1-MT1-COM06-00007

Video, On-line Game, Didactical resource

Maths, ICT, Other

English

Teachers, Students

- The context
3e’s’ : e-counting; e-culture; e-communications is an activity oriented project where pre-school and primary children are encouraged to explore and discover fascinating mathematical concepts in an exciting and interesting way. They perform a series of hands-on mathematical activities which they share between the participants. Children are encouraged to invent and play games whilst they learn to follow rules. To realize this vision the project team work together to raise awareness of the importance of mathematics in early education, sharing sound pedagogical approaches to mathematical teaching and learning and developing essential resources to support high quality equitable mathematical experiences for all young children. The project team share their expertise in ICT and new ICT programs are explored. Children join in creating mathematical digital puzzles and games. Different European cultures and languages are also introduced to the children. A healthy lifestyle option is incorporated with the mathematical topics. The results and descriptions of these mathematical activities are published on the project’s website. The digital games and puzzles are also published on the project’s website. Parents are introduced to the website to observe the development of the project. They use the educational games and puzzles with their children.

The Aims
To encourage for exploromg and discovering fascinating mathematical concepts in an exciting and interesting way. The partnership has performed a series of hands-on mathematical activities. Children has been encouraged to invent and play games whilst they learn to follow rules.
To realize this vision the project team work together to raise awareness of the importance of mathematics in early education, sharing sound pedagogical approaches to mathematical teaching and learning and developing essential resources to support high quality equitable mathematical experiences for all young children. The project team has shared their expertise in ICT and new ICT programs are explored. Children join in creating mathematical digital puzzles and games. Different European cultures and languages are also introduced to the children. A healthy lifestyle option is incorporated with the mathematical topics.

The Activities
. Through mathematics we will address other topics and skills.
. Students master pre-math and math skills whilst math activities will be made more attractive.
- Students foster essential skills like critical thinking, observation, problem-solving, and communication.
. Students from partner schools will motivate each other
- Logical thinking skills will be encouraged.
- Good mathematical experiences will be provided.
-. Students will develop their skills in ICT
-. The Students have been encouraged to invent mathematical games.
-. Digital games have beencreated to be used by the students in different levels in all the participating schools.
- Stop motion animation sessions will be held where mathematical short video clips will be made.
-. Different cultures have been shared. The students draw national heroes, structures and legends. These drawings will be made into digital jigsaw puzzles and quizzes.
-. Students will become aware of different European cultures and languages.
- Create a bank of resources for teaching the topics of the project.

The results achieved
Mathematical activities
Digital games
Puzzles
ICT Tutorials
Videos

It’s a good idea to join maths and IT knowledgement and culture. The project seems to be well organised and it had a lot of activities with students. (Link to the project description: http://3eees.wikispaces.com/Description )
They put in practise the aim of the project. The web page is full of slideshows with fotografies and videos that show us how they organised the activities. For example:
http://3eees.wikispaces.com/our+toys
http://3eees.wikispaces.com/in+the+shops
It’s a good idea, but is difficult to print o transform to other formats to use it in other schools. They also made a moodle, it’s is other great idea, we can use it directly in their moodle. There are a lot of activities and some of them are very good.
Moodle: http://moodlepp5.webhost.pl/moodle/login/index.php?lang=en_utf8 (you can enter as guest)
It should be good to write a teachers guide with teachers experiences to use these resources.

This project is very interesting and the results are inspiring. Seeing the website I discovered some good ideas. The videos are a good resource because you can see the reaction of children to the activities. I had problems with some resources. Resources are hosted in very different web services and some of them will be lost. Because I don’t trust in these services, I would download it in my computer. The moodle is a mixture of idioms and is difficult to use for children. But is a good idea to centralise all the resources there for teachers.

I would like to play and sing like children in videos in my math classes. I saw children of different countries communicating themselves by Internet. Some of the games are fun, but some of them are boring. If teachers record us when we are singing, our parents and other children can see us by Internet and we can see them.