Teaching Maths with the Help of ICT Comenius – School Partnership 2012-2014 Project - Maths is our common language
Why to Use ICT in Education
Content Why to Use ICT in Education 1 Advantages of Using ICT in Education
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Using ICT in Teaching Maths
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Examples of Using ICT in the Maths lessons
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Some useful websites
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Conclusion
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Rapid development of science and technology brings us more and more modern achievements, such as computers, digital cameras, mp3 players, mobile phones, internet, tablets, GPS navigation, LED or 3D televisions, interactive boards etc. New technologies have become an inseparable part of our everyday life. They are everywhere, almost in all professional and personal environments. The availability of information and communication technologies has also changed the nature of teaching and learning. Many students have an opportunity to use and work with these achievements every day, so if schools don´t want to look obsolete, out-of-date or conservative, they have
to react to changes in society with technical equipment of classes and the teachers´ attitude towards the way of education. Times when it was enough to take students´ attention by a good explanation and some pictures or by a sketch made on a board with a chalk are gone. Recent students want and need to perceive information not just by listening to teacher´s explanation but by using different kinds of multimedia, electronic school-books, educational software where they can watch animations with possibility of intervention or parameters change so they can study while watching and doing.
Appendix – Lesson plans
Advantages of using ICT in Education Computers and internet can be effectively applied to all phases of educating process (motivation, revision, practising, testing and evaluation...) It´s up to every single school and a teacher how to include modern information and communication technologies to educational process during the lesson or the teacher´s preparation itself. The majority of schools have already implemented modern ICT to education process. Almost every school has at least laptops and data projectors in classes today. Many schools also have interactive boards, digital cameras or video recorders. Thanks to them the teacher can make lessons more interesting, more attractive but mainly more modern. There are a lot of advantages of using computers and the internet in education. Here are just some of them: students´ motivation, encouragement of independent and active learning, flexibility, immediate feedback, efficiency of obtaining information, displaying of many options at once, sharing resources, saving time, elimination of routine works, easier communication, ICT enables pupils to work in their own pace and draft or redraft their work until they are satisfied with it.
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Teaching Maths with the Help of ICT Using ICT in Teaching Maths Contrasting with mathematics, most of the students are interested in new information technologies, they usually do not have many difficulties with using them and they are highly motivated to learn about them. When planning Maths activities teachers need to think beyond the Maths curriculum and find the activities that will allow students to understand the purpose of learning the Maths skills. It is important to combine the knowledge with real life situations as well as methodology and teaching tools that are interesting for students. The aim of our project is to enhance students' interest in mathematics by the use of their raising interest in new technologies. By promoting a positive and interested attitude towards mathematics, students will be brought to higher levels of understanding.
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There are three main ways in which ICT can be used: • Whole class - if school has an ICT classroom, some of the maths lessons could take place in here. ICT classroom can be used in a whole class situation to demonstrate certain concepts if the teacher has access to a large monitor or screen projector or the teacher can use a white board or flip chart during explanation of the topic and then students can practice in applying the skills and concepts of the lesson by computer activities. • Group work – when classes have just 2 or 3 computers, we can divide the class into groups in the main part of the lesson, groups can have the same tasks or each group could do different activity that links to the objectives of the lesson and then every group will give the feedbacks and present their work to the others. In a group work it is important that the teacher remembers to give equal access to the computer activities to all students over the school year. • Individuals - sometimes there may be children with particular special needs in the class who are following individual programmes of study or very talented students who need some extra work. The teacher can use some ICT software available that would be of benefit for them so they can work at their level while the class do common activities.
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Teaching Maths with the Help of ICT Examples of Using ICT in the Maths lessons Computer presentation PowerPoint – one of the most wide spread programs for computer presentation Prezi – software for presentations These programs show a wide variety of different graphical designs; they are time saving, as they offer ready structures for arranging of the contents; they have options for inserting different objects; they have different means for adding special or media effects. E – lessons – most of the contemporary materials are developed in a way which uses interactivity in the best possible way. If there isn’t any interactivity we could hardly talk about electronic education. This means that the active role is transmitted to the student and we can talk on a higher scale for learning rather than memorizing, for searching rather than reading the material. A lot of new illustration materials are use , which were not accessible for the students in the past, threedimensional pictures, drawings and schemes, which can be changed it real time; wide variety of links to materials used in literature, and in some of them even decorations. This is acceptable from purely practical point of view, they don’t take any resources like the color pages in a textbook, but they grab the look with good layout. In these dynamic teaching materials students get the opportunity to reach the results alone, often using their own approaches and logic, at the same time the teachers guides them and systemizes the learned. This presents undoubtedly development in positive direction and is usually encouraged although the things may not go in the best possible direction. Geonex – drawing program, extremely useful for complicated geometrical drawings, which shows exactly how a figure must be drawn. Cabri Geometry - interactive geometry software produced by the French company Cabrilog for teaching and learning geometry and trigonometry. It was designed with ease-of-use in mind. The program allows the user to animate geometric figures, proving a significant advantage over those drawn on a blackboard. Relationships between points on a geometric object may easily be demonstrated, which can be useful in the learning process. There are also graphing and display functions which allow exploration of the connections between geometry and algebra. (Adopted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabri_Geometry) On-line tests – they are very useful for both teachers and students
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Teaching Maths with the Help of ICT
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Some useful websites for teachers and students www.nrich.maths.org.uk www.teachingideas.co.uk www.mathsphere.co.uk www.ginn.co.uk http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths http://teacher.scholastic.com/whiteboards/sciencemath.htm www.prometheanplanet.com www.resursi.e-edu.bg/zmon/action/goToGrades?sesskey http://www.math10.com/ http://mat.net-bg.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=71 http://geonext.unbayreuth.de/ http://prezi.com/ http://matematika.start.bg/
Conclusion The discipline of mathematics is considered crucial since the beginning of the schooling process and therefore it has more compulsory classes in the curriculum than the other subjects. Moreover, in most schools there are projects to support individualized teaching from the 1st cycle up to the end of secondary school. We hope that this brochure will provide a stimulus to teachers to apply additional and alternative ideas and above all the use of ICT in teaching Maths and thus make the teaching process more effective as well as interesting for students. PORTUGAL Escola Secundária Manuel da Fonseca Santiago do Cacém
BULGARIA St. Paisii Hilendarski Parvomay
SLOVAKIA Gymnázium Snina
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission within the “Lifelong Learning Programme – Comenius multilateral school partnership”. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.