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The project Numbers@English was created to help students appreciate the importance of numeracy in everyday life, accent the importance of English and broaden digital skills while dealing with it.The main objective of the project was popularization of numeracy and its usefulness among young people. Showed the usefulness of Maths in different areas of life we encouraged students to widen their knowledge and broaden their minds.Dealing with numbers through nature, geography, money, travelling, ecology and saving energy, art, songs, social media and ICT, student broadened their basic numeracy skills as well as improved their English language knowledge, which was the official language of the project.There were 9 participating schools in the project from 8 European countries: Portugal, Croatia, Latvia, Italy, Poland, Spain, France and United Kingdom.In our activities plan we addressed students of various age, from pre-school to finishing years of primary school or lower secondary school (depending of school systems in each country) which meant from 5-6 year old to 13-14 year old.Students worked on different activities related to numbers and everyday life, English language and ICT.The first activity pupils worked on ''Facts and figures about our school, village/town, region, country. Then, we explored symbols of money in each country, money throughout history and old currency of each “euro” country, credit cards, online payments. Comparing prices of basic things: bread, meal, milk, fuels, electricity…Activity ''Numbers, nature and ecology'' were about number of national parks, animals that only live in that country, plants, trees, endangered animals and plants.Next activities was Erasmuspoly and Travelling in numbers. Related to the game Erasmuspoly which was created during Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils, pupils in each school choosed towns/cities/interesting places from their country, explore them and present for the game. During “Travelling in numbers”, we made it in pairs partners’ schools, pupils from two schools worked together online, calculated and compared distances between schools; drawed the map; measure distances using Google Earth; means of travelling, how long will you travel by car, etc., use ViaMichelin website; make comic book, story about travelling to partners' places.Next activities were related to Safer Internet Day - facts and figures, numbers about benefits, dangers of Internet, with the ICT teacher, pupils produced comic banners and distributed them to other classes, and also exchanged them by mail to other partners schools.Following activities were related to pupils using smartphones/tablets to experiment augmented reality applications, they learned how to create QR codes with links of songs, webpages, videos, embed them on blogs, twinspace.Pupils made numbers/maths multilingual picture dictionary in all partners' languages - in paper. Pupils decorated numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 in A3 format, with symbols of their country; exchange with all partner schools.During activity “Erasmus City’’ pupils created 3D monuments from all partners’ places. They explored height, width, shapes of those monuments, calculated the ratio of actual size and size of 3D model. They studied things like: age, years, decade, era, century, bC & aC.Activity “Proverbs and Acrostic texts” was about sayings, graffiti related to numbers and creating Acrostic texts (number words) on bookmarks.We organised five short-term exchanges of groups of pupils during which pupils worked on: Money, numbers in the everyday life, Numbers and ecology, saving energy, Erasmuspoly (board game), Interactive boards and augmented reality numbers/maths multilingual picture dictionary.Also, teachers were a target group regarding their professional development in the areas related to Mathematics, English and ICT, which are Financial education, using WEB 2.0 tools, using social media in classrooms, using eTwinning platform, sharing good practice in using number games and pedagogical maths games in classes, sharing ideas how to use Interactive boards and tablets in classroom, Content and Language Integrated Content and using different Mental maths strategies.By the end of the project at least 60 pupils and 181 teachers were directly involved in the project and many more indirectly, by dissemination of participating pupils and teachers.We expected to popularise Maths as a school subject, enlarged awareness of using numbers and basic numeracy skills in everyday life, improved English language knowledge, broadened and improved digital skills, made more popular the use of eTwinning portal and different social media among participating organisations and wider, exchanged of didactic materials, experienced and ideas between teachers, made friends between our schools and continued the friendship after the end of the project.
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