Summary of the whole project.

1. The project number 2010-1-IT2-COM06-14377
Maths is B.E.A.U.
(that is Beautiful Easy Amusing Useful)
will be financed to all Partners.
The funding for school partnerships consists of a lump sum.
The amount is specified according to the number of mobilities the schools have
planned to conduct during the two years project cycle (for all partners 24 mobilities)
Start date activities 1 agosto 2010
End date activities 31 luglio 2012

2. Partner:
ITALY - Ist. Istr. Sup. San Giovanni Bosco - VIADANA - MN - IT (Coordinator)
SPAIN- Instituto de Ensenanza Secundaria “Luis de Camoens” - Ceuta - ES (Partner)
FRANCE - Lycee Francois Bazin - CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES - FR (Partner)
NORTHERN IRELAND - South West College - Omagh – Irlanda del Nord - GB (Partner)
ICELAND - Kopavogur Institute of Education - Kopavogur - IS (Partner)
TURKEY - Ozel Sarıyer Doga Lisesi - İSTANBUL - TR (Partner)
MEETING DATES (October – March – May)
2010/2011 ITALY SPAIN NORTH IRELAND
2011/2012 FRANCE ICELAND TURKEY

3. OBJECTIVES
- to promote students’ interest in mathematics, overcoming the reservations towards it
- to motivate every student towards mathematics
- to support the greatest development of capacities for each individual student
- to make students aware that mathematics education is not mathematics
- to increase knowledge, skills and aptitudes in the math's field for European students
- to enlarge young people’s competence throughout their lives, for their personal
fulfillment, motivation and future job satisfaction
- to improve the ability to develop and apply mathematical thinking in order to solve a
range of problems in everyday situations
- to promote interest in foreign languages, team work, greater sense of involvement,
student - centred initiatives
- to foster friendship among students/teachers of partner schools.
We intend to address our efforts to all students, but particularly to those in compulsory
education (14 – 16 years of age).
- to recover and reinforce knowledge/competence (above all logical skills)
- to acquire new math's competence.

4. The teachers will plan team/group activities based on everyday experiences
to carry out with students in local schools and to share online with all partner
schools, using ICT tools and also during the transnational meetings/exchanges
within the project.
METHODOLOGIES
The teachers will look for opportunities within different vocational fields where Maths
can be used naturally
- emphasizing process and activity, as well as knowledge
- promoting new methods and innovative classroom activities
- using different teaching strategies, according to the different learning strategies
preferred by each student
- submitting a series of questions and exercises, different in type and degree of
difficulty, to the students
- encouraging group work and involving all students.
Every student will find something that appeals to their taste and abilities.
All exercises must be written out in all partner languages.
The schools will collaborate with local firms and local authorities.

5. RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
SEPTEMBER 2010
Submitting a common questionnaire to the students about
their feelings towards mathematics.
MATH ANXIETY (why - who - how to cope with – how feeling)
MATH DELIGHT
OCTOBER 2010
Mapping of questionnaire outcomes for each partner school
and mutual exchange of processed data.
1st Transnational Meeting in Viadana (MN) – ITALY
from 18 to 22 October 2010

6. RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
NOVEMBER 2010
Sharing proposals of activities about the subject “Imagine a world
without mathematics, can you?” (This project will help students to
explore how our everyday life is linked to mathematics).
DECEMBER 2010
Mutual communication of activities taking place in each school.
JANUARY and FEBRUARY 2011
Collection of materials about the project “Imagine a world without
mathematics, can you?”
2nd Transnational Meeting in Ceuta – Spain
From 7 to 11 March 2011

7. RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
MARCH 2011
Monitoring and evaluation of the first results of the partnership work and
adjustment of the project objectives. Planning of Geometry activities
about the architectural buildings in the surroundings of each partner town.
(beautiful/matching shapes we find in buildings thought symmetries and
gold ratio).
APRIL and MAY 2011
Production of a tourist guide book about the remarkable buildings
and key art monuments in each town.
3rd Transnational Meeting in Omagh - Northern Ireland – UK
From 16 to 20 May 2011

8. RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
JUNE and JULY 2011
Sharing the products of the 1st year of the project.
SEPTEMBER 2011
Activity planning for the 2nd year of the project. The subject will
be “Mathematics in Food costing… when we have to carry
out a recipe” or (to know how to manage the costs and
expenditures when we want to realise a professional project at
the workplace) and the idea is that the teacher team group
analyze the format of THE PRICE IS RIGHT game.
4th Transnational Meeting in Charleville Mezière – FRANCE
From 3 to 7 October 2011

9. RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
OCTOBER / DECEMBER 2011
Training of students, both locally and online, so that they can
approach enjoyable games.
JANUARY / MARCH 2012
Transnational competition which will involve students in
mathematics games, both virtual (online) and during the
meeting in Turkye.
5th Transnational Meeting in Kópavogur – ICELAND
From … to … March 2012

10. RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
APRIL / MAY 2012
Production of a CD containing the final results and products of
the project.
JUNE / JULY 2012
Evaluation and dissemination of the results and products of the
project.
6th Transnational Meeting in Instanbul – TURKEY
From … to … May 2012

11. HIGTLIGHTS
2010/2011
- Common questionnaire about students’ feelings towards mathematics
- Imagine a world without mathematics, can you?
- Geometry activities about the architectural buildings in the surroundings
of each partner town and production of a tourist guide book
2011/2012
- Mathematics in Food costing … (The price is right?...)
- Enjoyable games (Mathematics games competition)
- Production of a CD containing the final results